Senator Kelly, thank you for being here today and for adding to this hearing.

I am going to repeat it and ask other witnesses if they would like to make a comment as well.

Together, I am confident that we can rise to the gravity of this challenge, and as we say in Delaware, seize the day, or Carper diem.

Should we require manufacturers to pay into municipal collection programs?

Doing so benefits our environment as well as our economy, as well as our basement, providing some more extra room in our basement and garage, and is a win-win for the Carper family and I suspect a win-win for a lot of other families, too.

In addition, taking proper care of our electronic waste is vital to national security, as it ensures adequate supply chains and prevents the loss of sensitive information through digital files.

Like find out what works, do more of that? Learn from mistakes, laboratories of democracy.

I had expected to come in, coming in on a train today, to see a different Chairman up here.

I'm proud to join the Chairman of today's hearing, Senator Coons, in giving Magistrate Jennifer Hall my very strongest possible endorsement.

In adversity lies opportunity.

This hearing will come to order. We are here today to conduct oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

One potential way to address some of the issues in PTAB that is in the PREVAIL Act, is a standing requirement for inter partes review.

I think an obvious implication of that is that Congress has to step in. Am I wrong?

We invested a huge amount of time in trying to sort of square the circle of patent eligibility.

The FY24 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill just got voted out of the Appropriations Committee by a broad bipartisan margin, and it includes a $560 million new economic resilience initiative to expand investments in critical…

Thank you, Chairman Menendez, for leading this effort to focus on the tools that we need to help strengthen our ability to respond to economic coercion.

Our first Subcommittee hearing was on foreign competitive threats to innovation, and it highlighted China's abusive practices.

I think we certainly agree that the current framework for determining which inventions are eligible for patent protection is just not working.