Innovation Race Podcast

Randy Landreneau is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and now an activist fighting to restore the rights of inventors. As the President of US Inventor, a non-profit organization, Randy represents inventors, writers, and entrepreneurs around the country to advocate for the US Congress to pass laws that will strengthen the US patent system. The main problem stems from The America Invents Act of 2011 that upended some of the revolutionary framework that made the US patent system an engine that sparked exponential growth in American innovation and ultimately propelled America to the leader of the free world. Randy’s battle may seem irrelevant to much of the population, but after hearing this episode you will realize how this battle impacts all Americans.

Declan Ganley is an Irish entrepreneur whose focus has been primarily in telecommunications. He is the founder and CEO of the telecom firm Rivada Networks. Declan was a contributor to the film Innovation Race and in this episode he dives deeper into some of the challenges his companies have faced when it comes to protecting intellectual property.

Josh Malone, is a father of 8, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an inventor. Josh invented Bunch O Balloons, which launched with a massively successful Kickstarter campaign, and would go on to win Toy of the Year. Just when Josh thought he had secured a future for his family, he learned a large corporation had stolen his invention and was selling it under a different name! This led Josh down a path to save his patent. Little did he know that he would ultimately fight to save the entire US patent system.

Jenny Beth Martin sits down to discuss Innovation Race with Director Luke Livingston. They discuss some of the details about what went into the making of Innovation Race, and they reminisce on some of the other films they have worked on together, including Invalidated (prequel to Innovation Race), Border States of America, narrated by actor Nick Searcy, The Determinators, and Tea Party Movie.

The Honorable Paul R. Michel is a former Federal Appeals Court Judge, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, and in 2004 he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. Michel served on the bench for 22 years before “retiring” in 2010 so that he could speak out about the serious damage he was seeing done to the US patent system. For being retired, he is possibly the hardest working person on the issue of intellectual property protection and he has been named one of the 50 most influential leaders in intellectual property law.

The Honorable F. Scott Kieff is a former Commissioner of the US International Trade Commission, where he served from October 2013 to June 2017. Scott has served as an advisor to high-level government offices during the Bush, Obama, and Trump Presidential Administrations on national security and economics. Scott is an author, an attorney, and currently the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School. Scott is an expert in international trade and business, intellectual property, and much more.

Gordon Chang is an attorney, an author, a regular contributor on major media networks, and one of the leading American voices on all things China. In this episode, Gordon pulls back the curtain on the Chinese Communist Party and exposes some of the major challenges the United States faces with its greatest geo-political foe.

Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He is an expert on patent law and intellectual property. Mossoff has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. When it comes to intellectual property, when Mossoff speaks, Congress listens. Mossoff was gracious enough to lend his expertise to the films Invalidated and Innovation Race, and now to the Innovation Race Podcast. This is episode two of a two part series.

Gary Lauder is a venture capitalist and the Managing Director of Lauder Partners, LLC., a Silicon-Valley based venture capitalist firm. He has degrees in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania, economics from the Wharton School, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has invested in over 160 private companies, mostly in the technology or communications industries. In the film Innovation Race, he described the “venture” in venture capitalism as being short for “adventure,” and after spending time with Gary it is clear that he has a passion for the adventures he embarks on every time he helps a start-up business or inventor with their innovative ideas. As an investor, Gary has a unique perspective on the importance of patents and the various improvements that need to be made to protect inventors and harness the American spirit of innovation.

Brigadier General Robert Spalding, USAF, retired, is the founder and CEO of SEMPRE, a technology company with the mission of protecting and securing our most critical resource - data. Gen. Spalding is the former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Strategic Planning. He has served in senior positions of strategy and diplomacy within the Defense and State Departments. Gen. Spalding has authored two books on the threats the United States faces from China and his expertise is unparalleled.