Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Chairman, it should be apparent by now that there are some fundamental issues at play here between two people over a…”

“Mr. Chairman, it should be apparent by now that there are some fundamental issues at play here between two people over a disagreement, an honest disagreement. Let me note this: that everything that has been said that is good about H.R. 400 has been included in my alternative bill which will be offered as a substitute on the floor. What we have now are several issues that differentiate us, and one is, of course, after 18 months all of our technological information will be made public to the world. Why is this? Why are they insisting on publication? They say it is to handle the submarine patent issue, although we have already solved that according to the Congressional Research Service. It is because there has been an agreement made with Japan that I have put in the Congressional Record, time and time again, to harmonize our law; in other words, make American law like Japan's. Mr. Chairman, if our colleagues listen very carefully to the arguments we have heard today that is what is being said. We have got to have a law like they have in Japan and in Europe. How has it worked in Japan? The little guy gets kicked and smothered and beaten down. We do not want a system like that here.”