Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025
Introduced Oct 24, 2025 by Rep. Thomas Massie
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This bill revises several aspects of patent law.
The bill changes the U.S. patent system back to a first-to-invent system, in which the first inventor to conceive of an invention is entitled to a patent. Currently, the first person to file an application that meets all the necessary requirements is entitled to the patent.
Several types of administrative patent challenge proceedings are abolished, as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) body that decides those proceedings.
The bill relaxes the standard for what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter. The only ineligible inventions shall be those that exist in nature independent or prior to human activity or that exist solely in the human mind.
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
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