John Stanford, Executive Director of Incubate, discusses how bad policies – like drug price controls in the Inflation Reduction Act and other policy efforts to undercut strong IP protections – discourage private investment and significantly impact the incentive for scientists and inventors to innovate.

Brad Watts, Vice President for Patents and Innovation Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center, discusses how bad data and pejorative terms like “evergreening” and “patent thickets” are misleading the public policy debate over strong patent protections.

Andrei Iancu, Former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of USPTO (2018-2021) and current Co-Chair of the Council for Innovation Promotion, discusses the terminology used by advocates of weaker patent protections and how the USPTO’s proposal on “terminal disclaimers” is bad policy and likely violates the law.

James Edwards, Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, discusses the conservative case for strong intellectual property (IP) protections and how USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board threatens patent rights.

Patrick Kilbride, Policy Fellow with the Center for American Principles, discusses how intellectual property (IP) protections drive innovation and how IP and innovation ecosystems are under attack by interests that don’t want to be encumbered by the rights of others.