Press Release

For Immediate Release

October 18th, 2025

Regarding: Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act

Dear Representatives Massie and Kaptur,

As the largest group representing independent inventors and startups across America, US Inventor highly commends you and fully supports your introduction of Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act (RALIA).

Our members represent the source of critical American innovation that was initially harnessed and jump-started by George Washington’s signing of the Patent Act of 1790. Providing effective ownership rights to inventors from any walk of life kicked off the innovation boom that caused America to become the world’s greatest source of innovation.

Negative changes in patent law over the last two decades have greatly reduced these key rights and the results have been disastrous. China now threatens to take the lead in almost every key future technology. A handful of large corporations threaten to become unstoppable monopolies due to lack of competition from American startups. Brilliant innovative minds are being held back and real innovation in America is in serious danger.

The solution for American innovation is the restoration of effective patent rights for inventors and startups and we fully support RALIA for this purpose:

• RALIA restores injunctive relief – the ability to stop your infringer after winning an infringement case. Injunctive relief was severely curtailed by the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange , L.L.C. The result has been a massive increase in predatory infringement and the loss of American startups due to the increased difficulty to compete with entrenched interests.
• RALIA eliminates the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the administrative court created by the America Invents Act of 2011 and used by large corporations to invalidate the patents they’re accused of infringing. More than 80% of the patents reviewed by the PTAB are invalidated. This extraordinary rate of invalidation is due to a severe lack of due process. Inventors facing the theft of their valuable, patented technologies deserve to face their infringers in trials by jury with full due process. Anything less should be considered unconstitutional.
• RALIA eliminates the “abstract idea” exception to patentability created by the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. The interpretation of this decision has led to sweeping determinations of unpatentability and widespread invalidations of patents on key technologies in America. Similar restrictions do not exist in China and Europe. One important study showed 1,700 important patents rejected inAmerica but allowed in China and Europe. This stumbling block gives China and others a significant advantage over America in the development of critical future technologies.
• Other improvements in RALIA include restoring America to First-to-Invent from First-to-File and eliminating the premature publication of patent applications, both of which have put inventors and startups at a disadvantage to large corporations.

Unlike other proposals that make only surface adjustments, this bill restores the law to its original, balanced intent—before it was weakened and distorted. It addresses the problems at their source, closing the loopholes that have allowed abuse to persist, and restores fairness, due process, and confidence in the patent system.

The future of America depends on restoring the incentive to innovate that existed prior to the changes in law described above. Prior to these changes, the thought that an adversary could surpass America in a new technology was ludicrous. Innovative small businesses thrived and kept monopolies at bay. The ability to turn a great solution into the American Dream was alive. This was all due to the incentive to invent created by effective, accessible patent rights for inventors and startups.

US Inventor looks forward to working with you to get RALIA supported widely and enacted into law.

Sincerely,

Randy Landreneau, President, US Inventor, Inc.

Dirk Tomsin, Chief Operating Officer, US Inventor, Inc.

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