Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Chairman, it seems that the debate on submarine patenting has calmed down a bit, seeing the fact that we have stated…”

“Mr. Chairman, it seems that the debate on submarine patenting has calmed down a bit, seeing the fact that we have stated over and over and over again, and used the Congressional Research Service finding, to prove beyond anyone's reasonable doubt that we have taken care of any potential submarine patenting problem. I have with me the Congressional Research Service report that says that our alternative, basically the Rohrabacher substitute, will end the practice of submarine patenting. So that is the only substantial argument that the other side has to say that we should fundamentally change our patent system. They are proposing, in the name of stopping submarine patenting, because it is the only way to stop it is to change the fundamental law that has protected American technology for 225 years. No, I have an alternative. The alternative was found by an independent reading by the Congressional Research Service to end submarine patenting. So what do we have? We have a proposal here to gut fundamental protections for American inventors, giving our technology away in order to end the submarine patenting problem, which we say we found another way to solve. No, we do not have to cut our leg off in order to cure a hangnail or an infected toe. We do not have to destroy all freedom of speech because someone wants to publish Hustler magazine.”