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James Edwards, Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, is author of the book, To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership. A Lincoln Fellow (1998) with the Claremont Institute and former speechwriter at the Republican National Committee, Dr. Edwards authored the monograph "Property Rights: The Key to National Wealth and National Security" and has been published in the Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily, Fox Business, RealClearPolicy, and IPWatchdog, among other media outlets. He received the Eagle Award (2017) from Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund. Edwards appears as an expert in the award-winning documentary film "Innovation Race" (2022).
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May 29, 2026 ∙ 3 min
A Hearing to Advance the UnETHICal Way of Upending Hatch-Waxman
On June 4, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will hold a hearing titled “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access.” This hearing appears to be pretext for promoting legislation that would dangerously weaken biopharma patent rights: the ETHIC Act. This bill, which Conservatives for Property Rights opposes, prohibits drug innovators from asserting more than one patent in a “patent group” in patent litigation. The ETHIC Act denies enforcing allied patents...
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Mar 20, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Trench Warfare over Trump’s Common-Sense PTAB Reforms
On March 25, Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires will appear before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing. The Intellectual Property Subcommittee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, seems intent on using this forum to advance the weakening of the American patent system. PTO proposed a rule last fall to rectify a situation that for more than a decade has hampered American inventors’ reaping the fruits of their labor. Frequent users of now-notorious “patent death...
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Mar 1, 2026 ∙ 4 min
SOTU Review
President Trump’s State of the Union speech contained much to like. He touted One Big Beautiful Bill Act tax cuts. He cited several initiatives to right-set the country: an effective focus on reducing crime and securing the border, several foreign policy accomplishments, efforts to remove DEI radicalism and initiatives to prevent the criminally easy access of unqualified foreign truck drivers in obtaining commercial driver’s licenses. He announced a renewed focus on ferreting out health care...
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