Richard Nixon actually said...

Benjamin Franklin, a famous inventor as well as a statesman, reflected once that he wished it his destiny 'to be born two or three centuries...

So long as the spirit of Franklin remains alive in America, we can be confident that our civilization will flourish.

It would preserve and extend some of the best and most important aspects of our current patent system.

America's dramatic progress from a small agrarian nation to a great technological and industrial leader has been due, in no small degree, to...