IRA, Sen. Manchin and the Future of Drug Innovation
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Law That Isn’t Red or White—and Sure Isn’t Green,” Sen. Joe Manchin claims his...
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James Edwards
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Monopoly on a Bad Agenda
The Federal Trade Commission has thrown so much spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, it’s made a royal mess of the U.S. antitrust...
James Edwards
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Sen. Sanders Wants to Repeat a Policy Failure
What do you get when you cross a self-proclaimed socialist with a U.S. Senate committee gavel? You get legislative power used to push...
James Edwards
- May 30
- 3 min
Half a Loaf Reagan Would Have Taken
Is the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the vehicle for dealing with the federal debt limit and avoiding a fiscally irresponsible default by...
James Edwards
- May 17
- 3 min
No Quiet Title for Innovators
The injustice Centripetal Networks has found itself facing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—AKA patent death squad—proves several...
James Edwards
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Congress, Supreme Court One-Two Punch for WOTUS, Admin State
In the latest round of Administrative State ping-pong, Congress has taken the first step toward disapproving an Obama-Biden-era EPA rule...
James Edwards
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Property Rights on SCOTUS Docket
On the first Monday this October, the opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s next session, the high court will hear oral argument in...
James Edwards
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
Warning: PTAB Is Hazardous to America's Competitive Health
PTAB harms U.S. competitiveness. It undermines secure, private property rights vital to our competitiveness in innovation. The Patent...
James Edwards
- Jul 9, 2022
- 3 min
Lawmakers’ Light Shed on PTAB
Twin hearings in the U.S. Senate and House Intellectual Property Subcommittees recently drew insightful, important questions and thoughts...
James Edwards
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Just Rhetoric on Inflation
There he goes again. President Biden’s launched yet another round of blame-shifting for his 40-year-high inflation. And he’s pushing...
James Edwards
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Biden’s Contributions to Rising Inflation
“. . . [T]he idea we’re going to be able . . . to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term, nor is...
James Edwards
- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Administrative State’s New Lease on Life in Washington
A year into the Biden administration, a characteristic has emerged that’s emblematic of its central approach to achieving its policy...
James Edwards
- Oct 13, 2021
- 3 min
Lessons from Messing with Medicare
In 1989, a powerful Washington politician messed with Medicare. Grandma and Grandpa weren’t happy. The guy who was untouchable in the...
James Edwards
- Sep 29, 2021
- 3 min
Restore American Inventing? Or Gut American Invention?
Let’s get one thing straight: The “Restoring the America Invents Act” will further weaken U.S. patent reliability and certainty. This as...
James Edwards
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Unhappy 10th Birthday, AIA
Ten years ago, Congress enacted a highly destructive law undoing important elements of the wildly successful, property rights-based,...
James Edwards
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
E.O.: Assaulting Property Rights Is a Strange Way to Promote Competition
President Biden’s July 9 executive order, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” purports to promote competition. Let’s just...
James Edwards
- May 14, 2021
- 3 min
11 Million U.S. Patents . . . and China’s Rising
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently awarded the 11 millionth U.S. patent. It went to inventors of a medical device for...
James Edwards
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
False Premises on Energy and Environment
A bright spot of the humming, gleaming pre-COVID U.S. economy was the remarkable performance of domestic oil and gas production and jobs...
James Edwards
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Study: Weak Patents Drive Away VCs
Among its intense assaults on private property rights, the Obama-Biden administration abused regulatory powers to weaken our industrial...
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