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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


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


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


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


CFJ Files Amicus Brief in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith
Copyright protections serve to vindicate the fundamental civil right that authors have to the fruits of their labors. This is how...
Ashley Baker
Aug 17, 2022


IP Stories: Innovating for a Better Future (A World IP Day Event)
Committee for Justice Director of Public Policy Ashley Baker participated in a panel hosted by ITIF...
CFJ Staff
Apr 30, 2022
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