Bob Goodlatte: “Today we are holding a hearing on the implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.”

I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.

Right, but the sale of the information to the government puts the government in the picture as well and the Fourth Amendment is directed at the government not obtaining information without showing probable cause, without providing a…

I think a great first step would be to pass the Fourth Amendment's Not For Sale Act that's been introduced by Chair Nadler.

I think there are a number of circumstances, particularly when civil rights, religious organizations, political campaigns, and other important things are being involved in surveillance, that there ought to be somebody not representing the…