Our Position
For more than 200 years, patents have created new jobs, spurred new industries, improved lives, and served as the backbone of global technology leadership and competitiveness for our country.
Weak patent rights pose a significant threat to our nation’s innovation economy and national security. We must restore strong patent protections for inventors to ensure our patent system continues to serve as an economic engine.
What do we support?
- Passing the RESTORE Patent Rights Act to restore inventors’ right to an injunction to stop the theft of their intellectual property
- Passing the PREVAIL Act to fix the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board so that it can no longer be abused by patent infringers and is more fair to inventors
- Clarifying what inventions are eligible for patent protections
- Fully funding the USPTO and ending the diversion of agency user fees
- Encouraging the USPTO to invest in additional human and other resources to better serve inventors