“Expeditious congressional approval and enactment of [PERA and PREVAIL] would be a vital step toward restoring the property rights of inventors.” Encouraged and abetted by free riders who would benefit unfairly from others’ work, well-intentioned lawmakers and… Read More »
On November 14, Congress will consider two bipartisan bills that’d make it easier for entrepreneurs and small businesses to patent their discoveries and inventions — and defend those patents from theft. The bills would propel our economy… Read More »
Two proposed laws affecting patents may come up for vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee after the election: the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act[1] and the Prevail Act.[2] Both have bipartisan support.[3] Just before a September vote, later… Read More »
With both presidential candidates’ renewed embrace of tariffs to punish geopolitical adversaries and protect domestic industries, the campaign is putting Beijing’s record of intellectual property theft and cybercrime back under the microscope. America’s best and strongest response would not… Read More »
“Pre-eBay intellectual property rights in inventions have been turned upside down. Thus, the RESTORE Patent Rights Act is warranted.” If the essence of patent rights—the right to exclude—is ever to be restored post-eBay, a new legislative vehicle for… Read More »
The “right to useful inventions … belong[s] to the inventors.” James Madison articulated this core principle in the Federalist Papers and embedded it into our Constitution more than two centuries ago. In the years since, the U.S. patent system has been a… Read More »
Congress wants to reform a quasi-judicial tribunal that Big Tech firms have weaponized to attack their smaller rivals. Those Big Tech firms are rightfully worried that the reform legislation will prevent them from stealing smaller companies’ technologies without compensation and then exhausting the… Read More »
Big Tech firms are stealing technology from small businesses. Congress must stop them. As the founder and CEO of Netlist, a small company that develops advanced semiconductor technologies, I believed that patenting our inventions would protect our… Read More »
Most Americans never give a passing thought to patent laws — intellectual property policies hardly make for riveting dinner table conversations. But they are very much a kitchen table issue. When I led the Department of Commerce,… Read More »
A little-known federal agency might be our most powerful asset in the race for global tech leadership. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has the power to deter patent infringement abroad and at home by blocking infringers’ access… Read More »
