While the U.S. Congress currently seems to be at an impasse on bipartisan legislation on a wide variety of important matters, to its credit it has almost reconciled nearly 60 years of debate over how to improve the existing patent statute that it enacted in the 1950s. This new patent reform bill, dubbed the “America Invents Act” (AIA), seeks to bring the United States into conformity with patent laws around the world, spur innovation to create American jobs, as well as increase the quality and strength of U.S. patents. Congress also hopes to reconcile the trend of U.S. Supreme Court reversals of Federal Circuit decisions which it sees as evidence that patents under the current law are perhaps too easy to obtain and too difficult to challenge. See H.R. Rep. 112-98 at 39 n.7.
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