WASHINGTON (June 12, 2025) Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) recently introduced the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act,” a bill that would impose significant new taxes on litigation funding investments. Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK) has introduced a companion bill in the House.
Big business lobbyists are winning an obscure — but hugely consequential — battle over the future of the judicial system. If these lobbyists continue to get their way, small businesses and their workers will be the biggest losers.
WASHINGTON (March 12, 2025) – The Inventors Defense Alliance welcomes the nomination of John Squires as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The Inventors Defense Alliance (IDA) celebrates the introduction of the Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2025 in the House and Senate, and praises the original sponsors, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Representatives Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA).
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, the Inventors Defense Alliance filed an amicus brief in EcoFactor, Inc. v Google LLC.
The story is every inventor’s nightmare: A small innovative company develops a breakthrough technology. A much larger company takes notice. Shortly thereafter, it launches a suspiciously similar product.
American innovation is under attack. Across the country, it’s increasingly difficult for startups and inventors to protect their inventions from large companies that want to steal them.
As a new Congress prepares to take the reins in January, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are racing against the clock to tackle the mountain of pending legislation that awaits their attention.
As a new Congress prepares to take the reins in January, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are racing against the clock to tackle the mountain of pending legislation that awaits their attention.
More than 120 corporate giants have just issued a joint letter putting themselves squarely on the side of patent infringers and against America’s smaller innovative companies.