WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and other U.S. Senators are urging (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Letter-to-Commerce-and-USPTO-on-Patent-Tax-Proposal.pdf) the Trump administration to reserve course on their proposed decision to drastically overhaul the patent system by forcing patent holders to pay between one and five percent of their invention's overall value to file for a patent.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office John A. S...