Please read this, we will discuss this at the June meeting. This proposed Act is nothing more, and nothing less, than a smoke screen to hide the deceitful intent of the legislation. This is bad law, and it can't be made good by swapping titles around and calling it what it isn't . This section is dedicated to regulating a single industry that preys upon a single group by making false promises and failing to keep them. A total lack of knowledge of the inventive community is frightfully apparent here.
Inventors are a secretive lot.
The obvious intent is to make the small inventors feel that they will have Federal protection so they will stop objecting to the passage of legislation which will essentially dismantle a 210 year old system that has served them and this nation well. Congress should have learned, long ago, that there are simply some things that cannot be legislated, e.g., sobriety, brotherhood and morality, but it obviously has not. The indictments handed down on May 18, to invention scam organizations, by the Federal Court, were not initiated by a government investigation. They were the direct result of the efforts of The United Inventors Association of the U.S.A. in cooperation with the appropriate federal agencies. We all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Bob Lougher for his efforts on our part .