In addition to being blatantly discriminatory, the legislation represents a flagrant disregard for the Trump administration’s trade priorities and creates a wide opening for China to deepen its foothold in Brazil.

“By stripping Judge Newman of her judicial duties while leaving her nominally in office, the Federal Circuit has exercised a removal power the Constitution assigns exclusively to Congress."

In a market process, coordination emerges from many actors testing different plans, correcting errors, and responding to price signals, customer demand, and competitive pressure. What looks like coordination is actually the emergent result of decentralized adaptation. By contrast, a politically salient term sheet invites firms to cluster around what is legible to Washington.

In choosing Hikma v. Amarin, the Court has focused on a narrow question aligned with current concerns about drug pricing—while leaving unresolved deeper uncertainties in patent law that affect innovation across the entire economy.

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.

American technological leadership results from secure property rights driving risk taking not from centralized planning or regulatory micromanagement.

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.

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.

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.