Congress is in the process of rewriting the United States' patent laws. Scientific and technological changes in virtually all markets have dramatically altered the patent system itself. Reacting to fears that patents and patent litigation could retard rather than support technological progress, legislators are poised to take action with the...

American Enterprise Institute president Christopher DeMuth announced today that the National Legal Center for the Public Interest has been merged into AEI.

Patent litigation is broken, and Congress is every bit as qualified as--and often more qualified than--the courts to fix it.

If the legislature will not act responsibly, courts should aggressively protect the constitutional rights of parties when retroactive legislation creates new liabilities for past conduct.