Dana Rohrabacher: “in the next 2 weeks a vital issue will be coming to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. We will be…”

“in the next 2 weeks a vital issue will be coming to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. We will be deciding whether or not America will continue to have a strong patent system or whether our country will obliterate what has been the strongest patent system in the world. Because the patent legislation is by its very nature a complicated concept, powerful forces have been able to undermine America's patent system with very little public attention. Who is opposed to a strong patent system, someone might ask. Well, how about foreign powers that do not like the United States being the dominant economic and military power in the world? Yes, foreign powers do not like a strong American patent system because they do not want us to have what is America's greatest economic and competitive edge, the genius of our own people being brought to play in the marketplace. Especially countries in Asia which tend to, instead of create new ideas, copy; they instead copy American ideas. These powers in Asia would prefer that America's patent system be weakened. Those are the people who might have an interest in weakening America's patent system, also multinational corporations who have little or no loyalty to the American people. These huge corporate interests who also would like to use the ideas of ordinary Americans and not have to pay royalties to the inventors.”