Dana Rohrabacher: “Thank you very much, and I hope everyone is paying attention to what this is all about tonight. First of all, we have…”

“Thank you very much, and I hope everyone is paying attention to what this is all about tonight. First of all, we have Dan Lungren, one of our Members who is a former Attorney General of California, along with Jim Sensenbrenner and John Conyers both the former chairmen of the Judiciary Committees, all of them adamant that this bill is unconstitutional. And now we have a discussion and we have a lot of people talking about backlogs and what's wrong with the efficiency of the patent system or the patent office as if that's what this is all about. It is not what this is all about. This, again, has been designed, this is a patent fight that's been going on 20 years. Basically, you have some very large multinational corporations who are trying to harmonize American patent law with the rest of the world, even though American patent law has been stronger than the rest of the world throughout our Republic's history. You weaken the patent protection of the American people; you are weakening their constitutional protections in the name of harmonizing it with Europe. Is that what we want to do? I don't think so. That will have dramatic impact on our country. Hoover Institution, one of the most highly respected think-tanks in the United States, had four of their scholars go after this bill; and here's three of the points they've made, through the many points, that said thumbs down on this America Invents Act. It is better called the patent rip-off bill.…”