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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
COALITION LETTER
CPR Warns Sec. Lutnick About the "ETHIC" Act
CPR strongly opposes the Eliminating Thickets to Improve Competition (ETHIC) Act. Framed as procompetition reform, it undermines constitutionally guaranteed patent rights.
COMMENT LETTER
Conservatives for PTO Fix to PTAB Decisions
The proposal would improve the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s practices for instituting inter partes review challenges. It would help restore fairness, efficiency, and predictability to patent adjudication, principles that Congress pledged in the America Invents Act.
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.

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

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