A day after committee passage of the “Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2025”, a US senator also introduced the measure in the upper chamber.

The “Litigation Transparency Act of 2025,” which would curb the use of third-party litigation funding in U.S. lawsuits, failed to get to a vote in the House Judiciary Committee today.

The latest measure designed to tackle litigation finance is one of several different bills making their way through Congress aimed at addressing issues such as foreign influence in the third-party funding industry.

From the research awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics to a patentee-friendly shift at the US Patent and Trademark Office, innovation is having a moment. Kristen Osenga tells MLex the attention is long overdue — and that it’s time for Congress to do its part.

After the longest government shutdown in modern history, the House is finally back in session. Unfortunately, one of its first orders of business appears to be siding with Big Tech over small inventors.

Congress is considering a measure that could harm the very people the US depends on for its next wave of innovation. The Litigation Transparency Act of 2025 would force plaintiffs to reveal details about anyone who helps finance their lawsuits.

Missouri’s inventors are helping power America’s next technological renaissance — from medical breakthroughs in St. Louis to ag-tech innovation in Columbia and aerospace engineering in Kansas City. But now, a federal tax scheme threatens to undermine that momentum and penalize the very people driving it.

From the bustling research corridors of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the advanced manufacturing plants in Clarksville and the growing tech ecosystem in Nashville, Tennessee’s entrepreneurs are fueling America’s innovation economy.