We support a balanced #patent system that fixes the problems of low quality patents & baseless assertions while promoting #Investment, #Jobs, & #PatentQuality
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HTIA honored @RepZoeLofgren with our Advancing Innovation Award for her years advocating for our patent system and defending the America Invents Act's intent. Her message: "Good patents foment innovation, and bad patents undercut innovation." Thank you for standing up for IPR.
HTIA honored @repdarrellissa with our Advancing Innovation Award, capping a career as one of Congress's leading voices on IP. Thank you, Chairman, for your leadership in protecting American innovation and advancing sound patent policy in Congress.
HTIA is on LinkedIn!⚙️💡Follow along for updates on Inter Partes Review, patent reform, and the policies that matter most to American innovators: linkedin.com/company/hightec…
Patents are supposed to be about advancing technology. @SenJudiciaryGOP / @JudiciaryDems must keep it that way and oppose efforts to upend patent eligibility. Read more: hightechinventors.com/_files…
Genuine innovation deserves patent protection — mere abstract ideas don't. @SenJudiciaryGOP / @JudiciaryDems should protect the eligibility standards that keep the patent system focused on real technological advances and safeguard U.S. businesses.
Today @SenJudiciaryGOP / @JudiciaryDems debate patent eligibility. The current standard — reaffirmed unanimously by the Supreme Court in Alice — keeps patents tied to real technological advances. That's good for patent quality and innovation. Tune in: judiciary.senate.gov/committ…
The myth: gutting IPR protects small inventors.
The reality: only 7% of defendants sued by patent trolls are large companies. More than half of the targets of troll suits are companies with fewer than 100 employees.
IPR is a resource for businesses of all sizes and industries
The USPTO treats patent applicants as "customers" and their satisfaction as "a vital quality indicator." When most of those customers are foreign entities and Chinese military companies, that's not customer service. That's a national security risk.
Hedge funds are buying up patents and using those investments to fuel the efforts of PAEs — shell companies that have never invented anything. Efforts to limit IPR should be understood for what they are: a gift to the patent troll industry, paid for by American innovators.
American businesses can't afford to go back to the era of abusive patent litigation. 🚨 IPR deters frivolous lawsuits, reduces costs, and protects U.S. companies from trolls. The USPTO’s proposed rules would undo all of it — and American businesses would pay the price.💲
IPR isn't a Big Tech weapon. From automakers and energy providers to healthcare and financial services firms, IPR is a shared defense mechanism for any operating company that makes real products and faces threats from patent trolls that prevent it from doing so.
⚠️ In 2024, nearly 10,000 U.S. patents went to Chinese entities flagged as security threats. As China uses our patent system against us, the USPTO’s complicity continues to reward overseas R&D, weaken American industry, and raise the cost and legal risk of operating in the U.S.
China is weaponizing our own patent system. YMTC — a CCP-owned chipmaker — is using its 1,000+ U.S. patents to attack Micron and threaten American semiconductor supply chains. The USPTO must act now to restore IPR and protect American innovators from trolls' abusive litigation.
📢 Over 11,000 comments from industry leaders, former lawmakers, and advocacy groups across sectors are sending one message to the USPTO: withdraw the NPRM that would gut access to IPR.
Read our statement: hightechinventors.com/post/b…
Semiconductors. Digital infrastructure. AI. CCP-linked entities have weaponized U.S. patents against America's most critical industries. The Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act is a critical step toward stopping them. Read more: fitzgerald.house.gov/media/p…
For too long, foreign entities have weaponized U.S. patents against critical American industries. We thank @RepFitzgerald, @repdarrellissa, and @RepMoolenaar for taking a stand and introducing the Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act. Learn more: fitzgerald.house.gov/media/p…
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The Chinese Communist Party has spent years exploiting the American economy to advance its own technological and military ambitions.
That’s why I introduced the Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act alongside @RepMoolenaar and @repdarrellissa.
This legislation closes the door on hostile foreign entities using our patent system to gain economic leverage and undermine our national security.
Read more ⬇️ fitzgerald.house.gov/media/p…
IPR filings have collapsed to historic lows since Director Squires took personal control of institution decisions and proceeded to grant petitions at a rate approaching zero. @USPTO has fully dismantled IPR. Read more: patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05…
