I rise today to speak to the America Invents Act. To put it simply, this bill, the America Invents Act, is about creating jobs. It is about protecting and promoting American ingenuity and giving American ideas the opportunity to become…

I was pleased to see that the Land and Water Conservation Fund get full funding.

Our troops are making remarkable and steady progress in degrading the strength of the Taliban.

Right. Then my next question, in trying to strike that right balance between free speech protection and promotion of free speech and blocking outright piracy...

I think that's critical, as you discussed before, to creating the kind of draw that will sustain manufacturing here.

Global piracy is an enormously difficult thing that is draining billions of dollars of resources.

But we need technology development.

I support ARPA-E getting a significant increase and think it has shown, both in its strategy and its focus, a real innovative approach.

Foreign governments and, frankly, their comparable law enforcement entities.

Counterfeiting and, in particular, online copyright infringement and the piracy of intellectual property is a very real and dramatically growing problem for us here and overseas.

I'm grateful for your service and appreciate the direction you're taking the Department.

We have to balance America's historic role as a Nation that promotes free expression.