These counterfeit products can be unsafe and harm consumers.

Trade secret theft has touched my own State of Delaware.

China has increasingly used legal processes to unseat America as the world's economic and innovation leader.

I worry that China and other adversaries and competitors will exploit our system for their advantage.

More than a decade after the Supreme Court waded into patent eligibility law, confusion reigns about what areas of innovation are still eligible for patent protection.

I've worked on the SECRETS Act with Senator Cornyn, to help prevent goods made with stolen trade secrets from entering our market.

The INFORM Consumers Act was an important step forward.

Finding some way to impose sustained costs on the beneficiaries of IP theft is something I suspect all of you would recommend.

Yes, I would encourage a standing requirement.

I'm concerned that a country like China that has a coordinated, focused, nationally funded IP strategy can exploit the fact that there's no standing requirement in inter partes review in PTAB to swamp it, with basically unlimited resources.

We need to change the narrative about American intellectual property but we also need to change the trajectory, coordination, enforcement, and taking the initiative.

I think the Choice Neighborhoods Program is one that could use more resources.