Jay Inslee: “this bill is consistent with an idea expressed by a former Member of this Chamber who did pretty well for himself…”

“this bill is consistent with an idea expressed by a former Member of this Chamber who did pretty well for himself, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. We need to do so because what we all recognize in this Chamber is one answer to the $64,000 question of how we are going to grow jobs in this country, is we are going to do this by playing to our American unique strength; and the uniquely American strength is we are the best innovators, we are the best technologists, we are the best creators for new devices the world has ever seen. And we need to play to this unique American strength in our strategy on how to deal with the development of the global economy. And this bill, although it will be little noted, it should be long remembered in our ability to play to that strength because we have people in every district in this country who today are working on inventions who will have the added flame of interest to their light of creativity.”