I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6624 
To restrict the export to foreign entities of concern of United States intellec-
tual property and sensitive information related to synthetic biology, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2025 
Mr. DAVIDSON (for himself, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mrs. BICE, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. 
SESSIONS, and Mr. HARRIGAN) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To restrict the export to foreign entities of concern of United 
States intellectual property and sensitive information re-
lated to synthetic biology, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Biological Intellectual 
Property Protection Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the People’s Republic of China is con-
ducting a systematic campaign to access and exploit 
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sensitive United States data and intellectual prop-
erty to modernize its military, intelligence, and other 
security apparatuses, enable human rights abuses, 
and develop dual-use strategic technologies; 
(2) access by the People’s Republic of China to 
sensitive United States data and intellectual prop-
erty poses grave and direct threats to United States 
national security; 
(3) the efforts of the People’s Republic of China 
to access such data and intellectual property are 
supported by a military-civil fusion strategy, through 
which the People’s Republic of China increases the 
size of its military-industrial complex by compelling 
civilian Chinese companies and research institutions 
to support its military and intelligence activities, 
which results in ostensibly private and civilian com-
panies that access United States capital supporting 
the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army; 
(4) the law of the People’s Republic of China 
requires that all citizens of the People’s Republic of 
China cooperate with national security priorities, en-
abling the modernization of the People’s Liberation 
Army, including through— 
(A) the National Security Law of 2015, 
which states that citizens of the People’s Re-
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public of China ‘‘shall have duties and obliga-
tions to maintain national security’’; 
(B) the National Intelligence Law of 2017, 
which states that ‘‘all organizations and citizens 
shall support, assist, and cooperate with na-
tional intelligence work’’; 
(C) the Data Security Law of 2021, which 
states that ‘‘where a public security organ or 
national security organ needs to obtain data for 
the sake of national security or for investigating 
crimes in accordance with the law . . . the rel-
evant organizations and individuals shall co-
operate’’; and 
(D) the Counterespionage Law, revised in 
2023, which states that citizens of the People’s 
Republic of China ‘‘have the duty to maintain 
the security, honor and interests of the state, 
and shall not engage in any act that endangers 
the security, honor or interests of the state’’; 
(5) the export of novel synthetic DNA and 
RNA sequences provides insight into the designs and 
research of biotechnology entities, leading to a high 
potential for intellectual property theft by foreign 
adversaries; and 
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(6) the United States should therefore control 
the export of synthetic DNA and RNA sequences to 
foreign adversaries. 
SEC. 3. LICENSE REQUIREMENT TO PROTECT UNITED 
STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SEN-
SITIVE 
INFORMATION 
RELATED 
TO 
SYN-
THETIC BIOLOGY. 
Part I of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 
U.S.C. 4811 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 
1758 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1758A. LICENSE REQUIREMENT TO PROTECT UNITED 
STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SEN- 
SITIVE 
INFORMATION 
RELATED 
TO 
SYN- 
THETIC BIOLOGY. 
‘‘(a) LICENSE REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
Secretary shall, except as provided for in subsection (b), 
require a license for the export, reexport, or in-country 
transfer to a foreign entity of concern of a digital sequence 
of synthetic DNA or RNA designed by humans or artifi-
cial intelligence systems. 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—The requirement for a license 
under subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to infor-
mation described in section 734.3(b) of the Export Admin-
istration Regulations. 
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‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) DIGITAL
SEQUENCE.—The term ‘digital 
sequence’ means a binary file or other digital rep-
resentation containing symbols representing the 
identity, order, and any chemical modification for 
each position in a DNA or RNA molecule. 
‘‘(2) FOREIGN
COUNTRY
OF
CONCERN.—The 
term ‘foreign country of concern’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 10612(a) of the Research 
and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act 
(42 U.S.C. 19221(a)). 
‘‘(3) FOREIGN
ENTITY
OF
CONCERN.—The 
term ‘foreign entity of concern’ means— 
‘‘(A) a government entity of a foreign 
country of concern; 
‘‘(B) a foreign person subject to the juris-
diction of, or organized under the laws of, a for-
eign country of concern; or 
‘‘(C) a foreign person owned, directed, or 
controlled by an entity described in subpara-
graph (A) or (B). 
‘‘(4) SYNTHETIC DNA OR RNA.—The term ‘syn-
thetic DNA or RNA’ means— 
‘‘(A) molecules that are constructed by 
joining nucleic acid molecules and can replicate 
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in a living cell, such as recombinant nucleic 
acids; 
‘‘(B) nucleic acid molecules that are chemi-
cally or by other means synthesized, including 
such molecules that are chemically or otherwise 
modified but can base pair with naturally occur-
ring nucleic acid molecules, such as synthetic 
nucleic acids; or 
‘‘(C) molecules that result from the rep-
lication of molecules described in subparagraph 
(A) or (B).’’. 
Æ 
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