American innovation shouldn’t be an open buffet for foreign competitors. Small businesses and independent inventors already struggle to compete with massive corporations. If the system makes it harder for them to defend their patents, the companies willing to steal their ideas have even less reason to play by the rules. Protecting property rights means protecting the incentive to innovate.

Innovation depends on strong patent rights that reward risk-taking, protect small inventors, and let upstarts compete. The RESTORE Patent Rights Act would strengthen patent enforcement and help keep America’s innovation economy moving forward.

Leadership means setting the rules — not living under rules written by others. As Andrei Iancu explains, U.S. leadership depends on a strong, reliable IP system at home. Congress should move now on bipartisan patent and copyright reforms like PREVAIL, PERA, the RESTORE Act, No Fakes, and the SHOPS Act. Strong IP is how America stays ahead.

Critics claim PTAB reform hurts small businesses, but the opposite is true. Stopping duplicative, abusive patent challenges protects the startups trying to compete with entrenched giants. @CharlesSauer explains in a @rc_markets article last year. realclearmarkets.com/article…