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CFJ Op-Ed: Why Trade Enforcement — Not Foreign Price Controls — Is the Right Response to High U.S. Drug Prices
Drawing on Austrian economics, CFJ argues that market prices—not foreign administrative ceilings—guide rational investment and innovation. Embedding government-set international price controls into Medicare would distort those signals and undermine U.S. pharmaceutical leadership
Jeffrey Depp
7 days ago


CFJ Files Comments Opposing GLOBE and GUARD Drug Pricing Rules
CMS’s GLOBE and GUARD proposals would tie Medicare drug payments to foreign government-set prices. In its comments, CFJ warns that importing international reference pricing into Medicare risks distorting innovation incentives and layering additional complexity onto an already heavily regulated system.
Jeffrey Depp
Feb 24


CFJ Op-Ed: Securing Property Rights Means Reining In Proxy Advisors
Drawing on Austrian economics, CFJ argues that markets depend on accurate profit-and-loss signals. When proxy advisors divert corporate governance toward non-economic goals, they obscure those signals and weaken the property-rights framework that sustains capitalism
Ashley Baker
Feb 20


CFJ Weighs In on How to Restore America’s Scientific and Innovation Leadership
American technological leadership results from secure property rights driving risk taking not from centralized planning or regulatory micromanagement.
Jeffrey Depp
Dec 29, 2025


Don’t Be a Third Rail: Why the STB Should Trust Competition
The proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern tests whether regulators still trust competition and market-driven innovation. The Surface Transportation Board should focus on consumer welfare and dynamic competition—not static assumptions about consolidation.
Jeffrey Depp
Dec 8, 2025


Re: Revision to the Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
These proposed reforms—particularly the restrictions on serial and parallel inter partes review (“IPR”) challenges and the requirement that petitioners stipulate to litigating validity in only one forum—represent an urgently needed course-correction to restore reliability to U.S. patent rights, strengthen American innovation, and fortify the nation’s technological leadership against foreign adversaries, especially the People’s Republic of China.
Jeffrey Depp
Dec 1, 2025


A Federal AI Moratorium Is the America-First Policy the Constitution Requires
State attempts to regulate artificial intelligence violate the Commerce Clause and risk crippling U.S. innovation. Congress must pass a federal moratorium to preempt state fragmentation and promote AI development.
Ashley Baker
Dec 1, 2025


The NIH Must Abandon This Harmful Remnant from the Biden Administration
Innovation is not a predictable linear process that begins in a lab and ends with a finished product ready for “access planning.”
Jeffrey Depp
Oct 19, 2025


Amicus Brief in Support of Supreme Court Application for Stay of Injunction in Epic v. Google Antitrust Appeal
Amicus brief of the Committee for Justice filed in Epic v. Google antitrust appeal argues that the lower court injunction violates longstanding antitrust precedent, will result in irreparable harm and is against the public interest.
Ashley Baker
Oct 7, 2025


National Review Op-Ed: Don't Tax Innovation: The Patent 'Wealth Tax' Is a Terrible Idea
A patent-value “fee” operates as a direct tax on personal property. Without apportionment, it squarely violates the Constitution.
Jeffrey Depp
Sep 29, 2025


National Review Op-Ed: Europe Is Going After America’s Biggest Companies. Trump Must Push Back
Europe’s campaign to undermine American tech is finally getting the attention it deserves. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing examining how EU laws like the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) are being used to censor speech, punish U.S. companies, and tilt digital markets in favor of European firms.
Ashley Baker
Sep 12, 2025


Amicus Brief in Support of Rehearing in Epic v. Google Antitrust Appeal
Amicus brief of the Committee for Justice filed in Epic v. Google antitrust appeal argues that the opinion represents a fundamental break from Supreme Court precedent.
Ashley Baker
Aug 27, 2025
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