American Innovators for Patent Reform (AIPR) is coalition of inventors, patent owners, researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, patent agents and attorneys, and others involved in creating or protecting innovation and advocating for stronger patent protection.

The concept of patents and copyrights was established by the Founding Fathers when they adopted the original US Constitution in 1787. From that constitutional mandate, the Patent Office was established, and it later became the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Protecting the intellectual property of inventors and writers is critical to creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and capitalism.

Unfortunately, there are forces at work in the United States that want to weaken the US patent system. Weakening the value of patents, making it harder for individual inventors and small businesses to receive patents for their inventions, and reducing awards for patent infringement will stifle creativity, reduce innovation, diminish entrepreneurship, and decrease the incentives for investment in new technologies and new businesses based on new technologies.

AIPR is committed to patent reform that is true reform, patent reform that:
• Strengthens the patent system
• Increases the value of patents
• Provides greater protection for patent owners
• Rewards innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship
• Penalizes companies that infringe patents
• Levels the playing field for individual inventors and small businesses
• Protects US companies against patent infringement by foreign businesses

We hope you will join us in what we believe is a noble cause. Please visit our What You Can Do page for ways to take action against patent reform that may do much more harm than good to our nation's patent system.

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