Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett Packard CEO, and now in the midst of challenging for the Republican Presidential nomination, spoke at the Iowa State Fair this week, specifically touching on the patent reform bill in Congress right now. She said the bill would harm the small innovator and she has lobbied against the bill for many months.

This is not the first time she has spoken out against yet another piece of harmful patent legislation. In December 2014, from The Blaze: “Carly Fiorina, a former chairman of Hewlett Packard who understands the importance of patents as well as anyone, has warned against the current push for overhauling the patent system. She notes that the proposed new rules would put patent holders at a greater disadvantage in court, and they would thus have a harder time preventing others from misappropriating their inventions and that the legislation would help big and powerful corporations at the expense of individual inventors and small companies.”

In March, 2015, she spoke at Inventing America: Patents, Innovation, Jobs and the Economy, which was held in Washington, DC. At that event, Fiorina said, “In fact, it has been the small companies, new companies, the individual inventors, and entrepreneurs who have had the biggest impact on our economy. It is true that small and new businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs in this country. It is true that small and new businesses, whether it is the nine person real estate firm that I started working at or whether it’s Bill and Dave who finally got out of their garage and started hiring a few people, small and new businesses employ half the people in this country.”

She closed her remarks with, “So as important as big companies are and big capital is to our economy, to job creation, to invention, the truth is, and it has always been the case, the small inventor, the individual entrepreneur is even more important. We need to think about that as we think about patent reform.”

“If the Innovation Act were law tomorrow, Thomas Edison would be a patent troll,” Fiorina has said. “Some of our greatest inventors would be patent trolls under this law. Our universities would be patent trolls.”