To amend title 35, United States Code, to establish a rebuttable presumption that a permanent injunction should be granted in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
This bill would change patent law to make it easier for inventors to stop others from using their patented inventions. Specifically, it creates a "rebuttable presumption" that courts should grant permanent injunctions (court orders preventing future infringement) whenever a patent owner wins an infringement case, unless the defendant can provide strong reasons why an injunction shouldn't be issued. The bill applies to all types of patent infringement cases and affects patent owners ranging from individual inventors to universities, startups, and small businesses. The legislation aims to restore what supporters describe as a traditional legal approach that was recently abandoned by courts, arguing that the current system has made it too easy for large companies to infringe on patents owned by smaller, less well-funded entities. The bill contains no specified funding or implementation timeline.
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