I have other questions I would love to get to, if you could briefly speak to the Capital Security Program and how that investment will reduce----

Thank you, Chairman Boozman.

I want to thank Senators Coons, Durbin, and you, Senator Hirono, for sponsoring that Act.

I think it is important that we have to take action to deal with those types of abuses in a way that we can find common agreement among the different stakeholders.

I think that is a great step in the right direction.

We should first do no harm. We should not address--we should not adopt a legislative solution that is so over-broad that it will kill the ability of a small inventor to defend their patent.

If we make it harder for a small company like yours to enforce your patent rights, they will suffer from less external investment and narrow the scope of diseases we could otherwise hope to cure in the next decades.

we need to diminish the rights of patent owners for the benefit of small businesses, but today's hearing has done no less than turn that argument, in many ways, on its head.

strong predictable patent rights, the ability of a patent owner to enforce that patent against infringement, is central to the ability of small businesses in technology, biomedical, and material sciences to survive by attracting and…

a targeted, narrow approach that focuses on the abusive behavior, such as that recently proposed by Senator Coons in the STRONG Act

So absolutely essential, streamline, coordinate, and empower regional.

Because several of these entities are on track now to go away--their authorization is either expiring or expired--it is uncertain whether they will be funded.

I appreciate the contributions all of you have made to growing the U.S.-Africa relationship and commenting on it.

The legacy of PEPFAR and a lot of our investment in modernizing health care systems in some countries like Nigeria show a very different outcome than we saw in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

I appreciate the opportunity to focus on the idea that inventors, innovators, companies large and small, established, private, public, have real concerns about overreach in patent litigation reform and we need to find a balance.

How you view patents and patent litigation really depends a lot on where you operate within our wide-ranging economy.

Thank you, Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Leahy for holding this hearing.

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