Building a Better Patent System*

Building a Better Patent System*

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The patent system is under sustained pressure from policy reform, litigation trends, administrative practice, and competing narratives about innovation and competition. While debate often focuses on what is broken, far less attention is paid to what a better-functioning patent system should actually look like—and how to get there without undermining the incentives that drive innovation.

This panel takes a pragmatic, solutions-oriented look at how the patent system can be improved to better serve inventors, businesses, and the public. Panelists will examine where the system delivers value today, where it fails in practice, and which reforms would meaningfully improve predictability, efficiency, and fairness across prosecution, enforcement, and post-grant review.

This session is designed for policymakers, practitioners, and industry leaders who are interested not in tearing the system down, but in building a patent system that works—one that rewards real innovation and supports economic growth in the U.S. and around the world.

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Materials

1. Federal Circuit Affirms Section 101 Ineligibility of AI Patent in Win for Amazon
2. Patent Quality: The Missing Half of America’s Patent Reform Debate
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