Reply #16: And who is pushing for the Senate to pass the American Invent Act

[sad sally]

so the President can sign into law?

No surprise here - five to 10 years ago, patent litigation was growing rapidly and scared many big firms into creating industry groups to lobby congress to "fix it." IT firms and pharmaceuticals butted heads for years then ultimately compromised on this bill. It does not benefit either of them very much -- nor anyone else, but their lobbying groups, such as the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform want a victory to justify their existence. In fact, during the intervening years, many major court decisions have occurred which have incrementally solved most of the problems that existed when those groups were formed … but they developed a life of their own.

So the President and congress are putting the interests of the job exporters ahead of the job creators … all due to the fact that the job creators have had no voice in this process and are still unaware of what's about to happen. Nor do they have the resources to hire lobbyists or make campaign contributions. Not a single inventor nor startup was invited to testify before the Senate on this in the past six years of hearings. This was not an accident.