Last year, in a case now on appeal before the Federal Circuit, Judge Posner in the Seventh Circuit... issued an opinion holding that injunctive relief is not available to holders of FRAND-encumbered patents.

Mr. President, I am glad the DOJ is going forward in pursuing this case, but as I said it is not enough. It is backward- looking and addresses past harms. My concern is that the conduct continues to this day. The credit raters are still…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for 5 more minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss a problem I have spoken about many times over the past 3 years, beginning with debate on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill. That bill, which Congress passed in July 2010, contained a provision I…

I even got so desperate that I got the SEC--and now it is law--to say that every time anybody is hacked into, they have to report that to the SEC and the SEC has to put it on its Web site as a way of informing their shareholders that they…

I think having this issue hang out there is difficult.

I think the most important thing that Congress and/or the FCC can do is to make sure that rural residents get their calls completed.

I think we know it has not expanded as rapidly as we had hoped even though there have been improvements.

Copper is still valuable in the broadband network.

I appreciated the support USTelecom has given to the bill that I have with Senator Graham and Senator Schumer and Senator Hoeven, which makes it an explicit Federal crime to steal metal from critical infrastructure.

I have introduced a resolution with Senator Fischer urging the FCC to act expeditiously on call completion problems to rural America.

I applaud that but the problems still persist.

I cannot tell you the number of businesses that have told me anecdotally that their customers told them that the calls were dropped.

Last year, General Keith Alexander, the head of Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said that they represent the largest transfer of wealth in human history.

What we need now are smart, targeted solutions to ensure our nation's infrastructure is safe, strong and efficient.

Ultimately, this is about strengthening our economy. America must be a country that makes stuff again, that invents things, that exports to the world.

I led that bill last year and we were not able to get it through the filibuster.

We certainly need bipartisan solutions to get this done.