Bob Goodlatte

Unfortunately, Dodd-Frank injects government bureaucrats into the decision-making process in the flow of capital.

We must be extremely cautious about any attempts by the Federal Government to thwart the ability of the private sector.

The free flow of capital is the linchpin of our capitalist economy.

I understand why countries want to have a compulsory license. If they have a life-saving drug and a company chooses not to sell it in a particular market, they're going to use their compulsory license.

If there was one thing that we could do immediately to improve this global situation, what would it be?

Whenever you have a country that doesn't treat our pharmaceutical manufacturers fairly in the process...

I support the direction the Administration is taking us, and continue to believe that Congress should enact baseline privacy legislation.

Some would say they should have been disbarred for that activity.

Troubling symptoms are already emerging of the ACA's anticompetitive effects.

I believe that the ACA has and will continue to substantially lessen competition to the detriment of health care consumers.

Instead of the choices that a competitive market offers consumers, the ACA offers mandates.

The ACA prevents health care competitors and consumers from entering certain transactions that they should be allowed to enter in a competitive market.

Obamacare violates both the Constitution and common sense.

As we implement these changes in the patent system, we need to ensure that the new post grant review and other proceedings provide simple, cost-effective methods for raising challenges.

It needs to be made crystal clear that the rulemakings and regulations promulgated by the PTO should move us forward toward greater certainty.

Today we are holding a hearing on the implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

I do want to acknowledge one that unified virtually all Members of this Committee, and that is full funding for the Patent and Trademark Office.

The key reforms incorporated in the America Invents Act... are far too numerous to recite in the time I have.

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was a monumental achievement and the first significant legislative overhaul of the patent system in over 50 years.

The AIA was the first patent reform bill in over 60 years and the most substantial reform of U.S. Patent law since the 1836 Patent Act.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the implementation of the--I prefer to call it the Smith-Leahy America Invents Act.

I am not aware of any other speakers on this amendment, so I would urge my colleagues to support the amendment. It is, as the chairman indicated and the ranking member indicated, bipartisan legislation that will improve the underlying bill…

At this time, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers).

The bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is, we can have the most innovation, best protected intellectual property possible in the United States; but unless it is protected around the world in this international global environment in which we are…

If we don't send a hard message on these issues, I think we will find it increasingly difficult to combat it at a later stage when sort of the horse is out of the barn.