The Hill: Undermining Intellectual property won’t beat China. Strengthening it might by Satya Marar
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 include targeting China’s own patents. Rather than compromise the U.S. patent system — a lynchpin of our own economic might — we need to strengthen America’s intellectual property protections further.