The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) has posted on its website a letter that the organization's leaders sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in opposition to S.515, the Patent Reform Act of 2009.

The letter urges the Senate to withhold floor time for S.515 until more revisions have been made, as the current form of the bill would adversely affect small entities and individual inventors.

"If a bill like this passes," warns the letter, "patents would become harder to get, more subject to challenge, and harder to enforce. Passing such a bill
would embolden infringers, with the consequence of less innovation and threats to U.S. jobs and manufacturing. The U.S. maintains a competitive edge in innovation; one that we should not give up without careful study."

For the full text of the letter, see the NAPP website or view the NAPP letter to the Senate in PDF format.