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“True liberty, by protecting the exertions of talents and industry, and securing to them their justly acquired fruits, tends more powerfully than any other cause to augment the mass of national wealth.”

— Alexander Hamilton, Defense of the Funding System

LETTER
CPR Endorses RALIA

Rep. Thomas Massie's excellent, bipartisan Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act would strengthen private property rights in one’s inventions and discoveries by broadly reversing the antipatent onslaught.

COALITION LETTER
Conservatives Oppose UK SEP Proposal

U.S. innovators that participate in the standards-development process stand to suffer irreparable harm under the UK’s proposals. Meanwhile, Chinese and other foreign firms would be incentivized to inflate the number of patents—pursuing quantity over quality of patents.

STATEMENT
Democrats Should Pass the Clean CR

Democrats own the government shutdown, demanding that extremist, exorbitant liberal policies be included in the continuing resolution--the same clean CR they have supported many times before.

COALITION LETTER
Let Biden's COVID Premium Credits Expire

Conservatives support Pres. Trump's turning down Democrats' demand that he not allow the "temporary" Biden COVID Obamacare credits to expire. The fraud-plagued subsidies cover upper middle-class earners.

STATEMENT
Senate Hearing on Desperately Needed PERA

Property-rights conservatives applaud the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and the Senate Judiciary IP Subcommittee for its hearing on this fix to patent eligibility uncertainty.

STATEMENT
No to a Government Royalty on Patents

Taxpayers already benefit from federally funded research, thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act. Congress wisely rejected government revenue-sharing, as it stalls innovation, jeopardizes U.S. security and opens the door for rivals to surpass us technologically.

COALITION LETTER
Conservatives Oppose Lutnick Patent Tax

Nearly 40 center-right groups wrote Sec. Lutnick opposing his patent tax scheme. CPR, ATR, NTU, Unleash Prosperity and others explain it's bad tax policy at odds with the Big Beautiful Bill "counterproductive in the extreme."

COALITION LETTER
CPR Joins GIPC, Allies Against Patent Fee Scheme

A system of fines on patent owners based on the valuation of their patent portfolio would upend America's proven model while harming U.S. global competitiveness.

LETTER
CPR Voices Opposition to So-Called ETHIC Act

This bill bars pharmaceutical companies from asserting more than one patent from a defined group in a drug product in litigation. It ignores that complex products, particularly in advanced technologies, usually involve multiple distinct inventions.

LETTER
CPR Tells FTC and DOJ Not to Harm Patents

Patent rights themselves don't constitute a barrier to competition in the pharma space. Rather, patents incentivize investment in innovation, whose groundbreaking products promote dynamic competition.

VIDEO
MFN Coalition on Most Favored Nations Pricing

A coalition of conservative groups voices opposition to the MFN drug pricing model. They agree that importing foreign countries' price controls will harm patients, innovation, competitiveness and the U.S. economy.

COALITION LETTER
Congress Should Fix the 340B Program

The 340B program is supposed to help hospitals care for the indigent at low or no cost, but it's routinely used fraudulently. They get medicines at low or no cost, then distribute them to hospitals in affluent areas.

LETTER
HHS Must Reject KEI's Section 1498 Misuse

Invoking 35 U.S.C. § 202 and 28 U.S.C. § 1498 to allow generic competitors to enter the market prior to drug patent expiry is a direct attack on patent rights. HHS must reject it.

COALITION LETTER
Praise for Coke Stewart's Leadership at PTO

Acting Director Stewart seeks to ensure PTO's fair treatment and giving weight to “settled expectations” of inventors and patent owners. She's restoring “quiet title” through reliable, secure patent rights.

COMMENT LETTER
No to USTR's Most Favored Nation Price Controls

MFN would embed foreign governments' socialist price controls into American law. That will punish U.S. innovators, investors and patients. Access barriers, hundreds fewer new drugs, China Rx R&D advantaged.

COMMENT LETTER
CMS's Antipatent Rx Price Controls

CMS proposes imposing price controls on new, separately patented medicines the moment they reach the market simply because they are related to older drugs.

COALITION LETTER
Pro PERA-PREVAIL-RESTORE Patent Rights Act

Thirty center-right groups voiced support for bipartisan, bicameral PREVAIL, PERA, and RESTORE Patent Rights Acts.

COALITION LETTER
Support for Keeping House's HSA Reforms

CPR joined more than 30 allied groups advocating for the U.S. Senate to retain health savings account provisions in the budget reconciliation bill.

COALITION LETTER
Oppo to Any Limits on Business SALT Deduction

Conveyed strong opposition to Congress limiting the ability of businesses to deduct state and local taxes paid -- a longstanding “ordinary and necessary expense” -- in budget reconciliation.

LETTER
Senate Reintroduction of PREVAIL Act

PREVAIL reforms the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which has been subject to abuse by patent infringers, Big Tech, Chinese national champions, and even hedge funds.

LETTER
Senate Reintroduction of PERA

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act the would restore the breadth and certainty of what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter. CPR strongly supports PERA.

COALITION LETTER
Support Repeal of California's EV Mandate

Congressional Review Act motion to cancel EPA's waiver from Clean Air Act, which allows California's strict emissions rules to force an electric vehicle mandate on all states.

LETTER
Praise for Acting PTO Director Stewart's Actions

Told Sec. Lutnick that PTO's Acting Director Coke Stewart is showing strong leadership to restore fairness, clarity, and reliability to U.S. patents and for patent owners.

LETTER
Reckless Senate Judiciary Committee Bills

Warned about four bills that threaten to undermine vital foundational principles. Exposed misconceptions about the patent system and the innovation process. Urged not to weaken the framework behind centuries of American technological progress.

STATEMENT
CPR Favors the RESTORE Patent Rights Act

The RESTORE Patent Rights Act would return access to injunctions to patent owners who've proven patent validity and infringement, as it was before the courts wrongfully denied it.

COALITION LETTER
Groups Voice Support for Death Tax Repeal

About 200 organizations wrote Congress expressing their support for eliminating the estate tax.

COALITION LETTER
USTR Must Reverse Biden's Weak-IP Special 301

CPR tells Congress the clear message in Special 301 reports must be the United States defends its citizens' IP rights abroad.

COALITION LETTER
Beneficial Tax Rate

As Congress begins work on tax legislation, this letter points out the benefits of the 2017 corporate tax rate of 21% for American competitiveness and average Americans.

COALITION LETTER
Outrunning China

Conservative leaders offer Trump team ways to win innovation leadership by outcompeting China, the EU and others.

COALITION LETTER
Maintaining U.S. Tech Leadership

We urge Congress to protect U.S. national security by shoring up the policy underpinnings that will protect our country’s innovation leadership in key technologies.

COMMENT LETTER
PTO Terminal Disclaimer

CPR agrees with bipartisan, former top PTO officials that this must be immediately withdrawn. (If there’s room, include: Its far-reaching lengths are contrary to statute.)

COALITION LETTER
Anti-USITC Bill

H.R. 3535 adds hurdles to the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ability to keep IP-infringing products out, enabling infringers to keep supply chains in China.

LETTER
RALIA

The Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act would strengthen private intellectual property rights. RALIA would reverse the antipatent onslaught of recent years.

LETTER
Sunset Act

The Sunset Act reins in the Administrative State's rules, regulations, and guidance. They would no longer remain in force in perpetuity.

GRAPHIC
What They’re Saying

These excerpt public comments that oppose the Biden draft guidance for Bayh-Dole march-in to forcibly relicense patents if an agency disagrees with the product price.

LETTER
Defense of Property Rights Act

H.R. 6758 enables property owners to hold the federal government accountable for takings. Its more efficient, uniform process secures Fifth Amendment rights.

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CPAC panel on patent property rights with, L-R, CPR Executive Director Jim Edwards, CPR member-Tea Party Patriots' Jenny Beth Martin and USPTO Director Andrei Iancu.

Statements of Principles

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James Edwards talks about his new book on Fox 24 News Now with host Leyla Gulen

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