As the nation is about to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, we should recognize and appreciate the U.S. intellectual property framework, particularly patents and copyrights. For it has played crucial roles in our country’s prosperity, economic and national security, and the prolific degree to which creativity and ingenuity here produce the innovative fruits that Americans enjoy every day. The recent publication of my book To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership  ha

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee  has scheduled a hearing ahead of Republican leadership’s fulfilling a deal with Democrats—a vote on Democrats’ Obamacare premium subsidies in exchange for a handful of votes by senators from the minority side to proceed with legislation to fund the government and finally end the Democrats’ heartless federal shutdown of nearly a month and a half. The November 19 hearing, titled “The Rising Cost of Health Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions

In the middle of a lot of good policies, such as tax cuts, deregulation, curbing California’s stranglehold that forces its zany extremist...

“Will Mr. Biden still be crowing when the price controls he and Sen. Joe Manchin made a cornerstone of their [2022] ‘Inflation Reduction...

The recently enacted “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is, like much legislation, a mixed bag. Some of its provisions are highly beneficial...

As Joe Biden’s presidency comes to an end, the time has come for taking stock of his performance in that position of public trust. Judged...

Just before Congress recessed for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee moved the most proproperty-rights legislation in...

This Constitution Day, the Democratic presidential candidate is committed to government price controls and to marching in on the patents...

Senator John Fetterman and Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester have introduced in both Houses of Congress the “Reducing Regulatory...

The latest greatest hits at the U.S. Supreme Court further curb the excesses of the Administrative State by restoring an important aspect...

A new study of patent litigation finds significant, troubling changes in U.S. patent litigation patterns Republicans and conservatives...

The Biden administration has declined to hand Apple a “get out of jail free” card. That’s good for U.S. innovation leadership....

Is the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the vehicle for dealing with the federal debt limit and avoiding a fiscally irresponsible default by...

World Intellectual Property Day for 2023 is April 26. The forms of private property rights most closely connected with innovation deserve...

In the latest round of Administrative State ping-pong, Congress has taken the first step toward disapproving an Obama-Biden-era EPA rule...

A fiendish scheme to advantage implementers over innovators is floating on K Street. The “Standard Essential Royalty Act” would give a...

Whether you realize it or not, property rights are on the ballot in the midterm elections. Taxes, redistribution of wealth, private...

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...

From a property rights perspective, the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill that Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer brokered turns out...

In 2007, Idaho couple Michael and Chantell Sackett prepared to build a house in an existing subdivision. They broke ground and began...