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HR 1574119th CongressIntroduced
RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025
Introduced: Oct 29, 2025
Technology & Innovation
Standard Summary
Comprehensive overview in 1-2 paragraphs
The RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025 amends U.S. patent law to establish a rebuttable presumption for granting permanent injunctions in infringement cases, reversing recent judicial trends that weakened patent enforcement and aiming to protect small inventors and startups from infringement by larger entities in the global innovation economy.
Key Points
- 1The bill mandates a rebuttable presumption that courts must grant permanent injunctions upon finding patent infringement, shifting the burden to defendants to justify why such relief should not issue.
- 2It seeks to restore historical judicial practices altered by recent court decisions that allegedly enabled large corporations to infringe patents of undercapitalized entities like startups and universities with reduced legal consequences.
- 3Congress asserts that reliable patent protection through injunctions is constitutionally mandated and critical for maintaining U.S. competitive advantage in the global innovation economy and fostering domestic technological advancement.
Impact Areas
Individual inventors and small technology startupsUniversities and research institutions holding patentsLarge multinational corporations facing patent litigationFederal judiciary handling patent infringement cases
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