the law is a success, usually by cherry-picking particular data points and ignoring the larger picture.

The joinder provision in the House's Innovation Act would create additional encumbrances for patent-owning innovators.

I am concerned about patent quality. I want to ensure that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issues the highest quality patents possible.

Whatever we do, it must work and we must not support a bill that fails to provide an effective deterrent against patent trolls at all stages of the litigation.

I believe everyone here agrees it is way past time to do something about patent trolls and to combat them.

If you had to identify just one reform or, say, one small list of two or three reforms that would help alleviate this problem, what would that or what would those reforms be?

An effective legislative approach will include many elements, but in my mind, two are absolutely essential.

By requiring a party to demonstrate that they or a third party have the ability to pay potential fees or explain why they wouldn't, a bonding or similar accountability provision ensures that the fee-shifting provision has the intended…

This is something that has now become important to people not just on K Street or on Wall Street, but on main streets throughout America.

I look forward to their recommendations.

That is a rather damning kind of concern to put in public, isn't it?

I am assuming you support NASA's decision in this regard.

Well, it seems that the right answer to U.S. worker displacement is to update the 1998 law for H-1B-dependent companies.

It makes no sense to ignore aspects of our immigration law and allow them to be frozen in time.

I would be surprised that there is anyone here that thinks we do not need to reform our immigration laws.

I understand that about biomedical sciences.

It seems that we spend too much time talking about the occasional shortcomings of the system rather than the economic benefits of welcoming foreign-born, high-skilled workers who want to stay here, especially after they have been educated…

To stop it here because we are afraid it might interfere with some jobs, it is going to create jobs.