Political Quotes

“First I want to address H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, which is generally a good bill. It is trying to deal with issues of nuisance litigation where somebody is sued and the costs of litigation are so extreme that they pay money just to stay away from litigation. That is really the underlying purpose of the bill. Now, what we have got to make sure of as Members of this House and as Members of the legislature is that we don't advantage one party over another. And the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) made a good point, Mr. Speaker, last night at the Rules Committee that you don't want to disadvantage small inventors who have come up with a good idea or a great product, something very novel, and some major corporation takes that idea or that product away and doesn't pay for it. That is the purpose of patent litigation. At the same time, you don't want to have some small company that buys a Wi-Fi service all of a sudden getting sued by some company they never heard of and they are saying wait a minute, we are not a patent infringer. I say all of this because the purpose is to have good litigation where there isn't extortion and there isn't theft as the result of some patent infringement. What is done in this bill, I think, though, is micromanagement of the courtroom and its processes.…”