HR5811Referred to Committee
Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-10-24
Introduced
6
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Thomas Massie
Republican · KY · Representative
Votes with party: 77.4% (514 recorded votes)
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Cosponsors (6)
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Plain-English Summary
Restoring America's Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025 This bill revises several aspects of patent law. The bill changes the U.S. patent system back to a first-to-invent system, in which the first inventor to conceive of an invention is entitled to a patent. Currently, the first person to file an application that meets all the necessary requirements is entitled to the patent. Several types of administrative patent challenge proceedings are abolished, as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) body that decides those proceedings. The bill relaxes the standard for what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter. The only ineligible inventions shall be those that exist in nature independent or prior to human activity or that exist solely in the human mind. The bill also makes it easier for a patent owner that has won an infringement case in court to secure a permanent injunction against the infringing defendant. Specifically, there shall be a presumption that further infringement would cause irreparable harm to the prevailing patent owner, and the burden shall be on the infringer to prove otherwise. (Currently, a prevailing patent owner seeking a permanent injunction must prove, among other things, that further infringement would cause irreparable harm.) The bill limits what types of publications shall be treated as prior art that could be used to make an invention be considered to be anticipated or obvious (and therefore not patentable). The bill authorizes the USPTO to keep and spend all the fees that it collects.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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Commerce
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