John Manchester, Director of IP Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, discusses how a proposal to impose hefty fines in the form of “fees” on patent owners based on a government-assigned “valuation” of their patents would cripple America’s innovation ecosystem and harm the U.S. economy, jobs and national security.

Congressman Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) discusses current legislative efforts to maintain and strengthen intellectual property protections in America and why strong IP rights are critical to U.S. national security.

The Honorable Kathleen O'Malley, former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, explains how strong intellectual property protections are critical to the U.S. economy, health and welfare, and national security, and discusses the need for Congress to fix the patent eligibility mess and restore balance at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Shabbir Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, discusses the dangers of counterfeit medicines, the importance of supply chain security for American patients, how the reimbursement practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurance companies impact whether or not consumers end up with counterfeits, and the importance of innovation and intellectual property policy in ensuring Americans continues to have access to new life-saving medicines.

James Edwards, Jr., Founder and CEO of ELITE Strategic Services, LLC, and Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, discusses his new book, “To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership,” which examines and explains how divine inspiration is behind creativity and ownership, and how policymakers need to restore protections for fundamental intellectual property rights that have been eroded over the last several decades.

Michael Rosen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, discusses the balancing act of patent protection, how legal decisions and policy actions have titled that balance against patent holders in recent years, and efforts (e.g., passage of PERA and the PREVAIL Act) Congress can and should take to restore appropriate balance to America’s patent system.

Professor Jonathan Barnett, Contributor with the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute and Director of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, discusses how the U.S. policy climate has been unsympathetic to intellectual property (IP) rights in recent years, three policy resets that will help reinvigorate U.S. innovation leadership, and adverse national security consequences of neglecting IP protections.

Henry Hadad, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Bristol-Myers Squibb, discusses how intellectual property (IP) protection is very much a natural right that encourages - not discourages - innovation, the incremental erosion of IP protections over the last 20 years, how the AI revolution is going to have a significant impact on the biopharmaceutical industry, and the need to restore and maintain the right balance between access and innovation to avoid slowing down biopharma’s robust innovation cycle.

Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council), discusses World IP Day 2025, and the substance and timeliness of the U.S. Trade Representative’s latest Special 301 Report – a Congressionally mandated annual report that monitors and reviews the intellectual property protection practices of U.S. trading partners.

Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, discusses the historical and Constitutional foundations of intellectual property rights and the vital role IP rights play in our innovation economy.