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The history of government price-control policies that seek to impose price ceilings on goods and services is both long and replete with failure. That’s because price controls discourage innovation and investment, and lead to shortages in the marketplace, among other unintended consequences.

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CFIF Joins Coalition Letter in support of PERA, PREVAIL and RESTORE Patent Rights Act Print E-mail
Wednesday, June 18 2025

The Center for Individual Freedom ("CFIF") this week joined a coalition letter to Congress, led by Conservatives for Property Rights and signed by more than two-dozen signatories representing public policy, grassroots and free enterprise organizations, expressing support for the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act (S. 1553, H.R. 3160), the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA; S. 1546, H.R. 3152), and the RESTORE Patent Rights Act (S. 708, H.R. 1574).

Read the letter below or access it here (PDF).


June 18, 2025

Dear Republican Senator/Representative:

The signatories below, comprised of public policy, grassroots, and free enterprise organizations, write to express our support for the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act (S. 1553, H.R. 3160), the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA; S. 1546, H.R. 3152), and the RESTORE Patent Rights Act (S. 708, H.R. 1574). We urge your support for this legislation.

The PREVAIL Act would secure private property rights to inventions and give quiet title, which is crucial for commercialization of and investment in patented innovations. That will boost the United States’s competitive edge, especially in emerging and standardized technologies important to our economic and national security. PREVAIL would reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) by adding procedural and due-process guardrails to reduce abuses of the administrative patent challenge system. These changes would protect patent owners from infringers’ ability to game the PTAB system through repeated challenges, even when a court of law has already upheld that patent’s validity, and inordinate PTAB discretion to tilt the process.

PREVAIL would help alleviate the damage to our patent system, to inventors (such as those who have testified before the Senate and House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittees in recent years) who face the prospect of lost commercial traction during what is supposed to be their exclusive ownership and use of their invention, and from the erosion of property rights in the patent arena.  Further, the legislation would mitigate the public’s misgivings regarding this administrative body.

The PERA Act would fully eliminate judicially created exceptions to patent eligibility. It would restore the congressionally intentional breadth of the section 101 threshold question as to what is patent-eligible subject matter, including of a “useful process.” This bill would prohibit examiners, courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or others from considering substantive patentability requirements (sections 102, 103, and 112) or from fixating on a patent claim apart from the invention as a whole in a 101 threshold determination regarding a specific invention or discovery. PERA would settle the current disquiet of uncertain patent eligibility among courts.

The RESTORE Patent Rights Act would result in courts again enjoining ongoing patent infringement after a patent is proven valid and being infringed. This would remedy the adverse way in which federal courts have applied the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 eBay v. MercExchange case. Over the past two decades, courts have created a categorical rule of denying permanent injunctions against proven infringers. This development denies the wronged party justice. It also stands diametrically opposite two centuries of historical precedent and practice. In short, RESTORE would provide patent owners the same equitable relief available in cases involving all other forms of property, including other forms of intellectual property. 

These three bills would bolster the reliability, certainty, and strength of American patents. They would clarify and refine elements of the patenting process, making it easier for legitimate patent claims to reach fruition and withstand what would become fairer, more consistent, impartial scrutiny once granted.

We strongly urge your support by cosponsoring the bipartisan, bicameral PREVAIL, PERA, and the RESTORE Patent Rights Acts. We look forward to working with you to advance this legislation to enactment.

Respectfully,

James Edwards
Executive Director
Conservatives for Property Rights
 
Steve Chartan
Vice President of Government Relations
Heritage Action for America
 
Jenny Beth Martin
Honorary Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Action
 
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
 
Jeffrey Mazzella
President
Center for Individual Freedom
 
George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom
 
Dee Stewart
President
Americans for a Balanced Budget
 
Ryan Ellis
President
Center for a Free Economy
 
Karen Kerrigan
President & CEO
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
 
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President
The American Association of Senior Citizens
 
Gerard Scimeca
Chairman
Consumer Action for a Strong Economy
 
Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring
 
Bob Carlstrom
Executive Director
Prosperity for US Foundation
 
Tom Giovanetti
President
Americans for a Strong Economy
 
Martha Boneta Fain
President
Victory Coalition Strategies
Vote America First
 
Kevin L. Kearns
President
U.S. Business and Industry Council
 
Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman
Conservative Action Project
 
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
 
Charles Sauer
President
Market Institute
 
Anthony Zagotta
President
Center for American Principles
 
Ashley Baker
Executive Director
The Committee for Justice
 
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
 
Dick Patten
President
American Business Defense Council
 
Paul Caprio
Director
Family PAC Federal
 
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
 
Matthew Kandrach
President
Consumer Action for a Strong Economy
 
Curt Levey
President
The Committee for Justice
 
Daniel Perrin
President
HSA Coalition
 
David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
 
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
 
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