Legislative Agenda: 2015, The Year of Reform?

Issue: Patent Litigation, Patent Troll Abuses

Where it Stands: The 113th Congress came oh-so-close to passing bipartisan legislation that would have crushed patent trolls and patent litigation abuses. The Senate Judiciary Committee was on target to pass a bill out of committee and bring it to the floor. But a coalition led by trial lawyers and pharmaceutical companies—strange bedfellows with differing road maps, but a common destination—managed to stop the bill in its tracks.