
Time to Restore Patent Property Rights
If you believed property rights are critically important, then you’d call for Congress to preserve, protect and vigorously defend intellectual property rights.

If you believed property rights are critically important, then you’d call for Congress to preserve, protect and vigorously defend intellectual property rights.

The need for patent reform is not a new issue, but a recent ruling provides a perfect example of all that is wrong with our current system.

Trial lawyers trying to hold parts of the legal system hostage to make money is nothing new. It always happens the same way: a few creative lawyers figure out how to exploit legal loopholes; then abuse those loopholes to enrich themselves at others’ expense until someone stops them. Along the way, they come up with all sorts of creative justifications for what they are doing, claiming it’s actually positive and beneficial. Behind the scenes, they convince or pay off special interests to lobby for delays in changing the law that would close their loopholes and stop the cash flow.