Jackie Deal is the co-founder of the American Academy for Strategic Education (AASE) and the President of the Long Term Strategy Group. Jackie specializes in foreign policy strategy and teaches courses on net assessment, Chinese policy, and political warfare to national security professions. Her work involves assessing the ambitions and weaknesses of foreign rivals to improve US intelligence. Jackie is an important voice as we take a deeper dive on some of the foreign policy implications of the innovation race with China.

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.

Frank Gaffney is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the Center for Security Policy and the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. In this episode, Frank reveals the clear and present danger the United States faces in the race with China.

Congressman Thomas Massie is not your typical member of Congress. Massie is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an innovator, and a patent-holding inventor. In what might be shocking to most, the Republican-leaning libertarian lawmaker is the self-proclaimed "greenest" member of Congress, living on a farm in rural Kentucky that is completely off the grid and powered by a repurposed Tesla battery. Massie appears in the film Innovation Race where he demonstrates his newest invention from his Kentucky farm and discusses what steps are needed to return the US patent system to its former glory.

Adrian Pelkus. Adrian is an inventor and entrepreneur, a veteran of the United States Navy, and he is precisely the person the founders had in mind when they enshrined the protection of intellectual property in the US Constitution. He is the quintessential inventor or artificer as he prefers to be recognized. Adrian’s life and work embody the American Dream and exemplify the reason we must reestablish our once robust protections of intellectual property.

Molly Metz. Molly is known as “the queen of rope” and is a 5 time world champion in the sport of speed jump roping. Molly never set out to be an inventor, but when she encountered a problem that she needed to solve, she invented a new design of jump rope. Molly obtained two patents for her design and believed that she owned the exclusive rights to her idea until someone stole that idea and used the US patent system against her. This is a story of success, overcoming challenges, and the ongoing fight for our rights.