Bring Jobs Back to America: Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act

Bill: 111-hr-5980
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Business investment and capital
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
General taxation matters
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Industrial policy and productivity
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Product development and innovation
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Bring Jobs Back to America: Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to create a comprehensive national manufacturing strategy to increase overall domestic production, create private sector jobs, and identify emerging technologies to strengthen American competitiveness and comparative advantages.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify U.S. firms maintaining facilities and jobs outside the United States; and (2) establish multiple Repatriation Task Forces to promote repatriation (return of a job or facility from a foreign country location to a U.S. location) in accordance with established targets for job repatriation and manufacturing growth.
 
Establishes the American Economic Security Commission to study and report to Congress on policy relating to American competitiveness and technology-based planning to bolster it.
 
Directs the Secretary, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to study and report to Congress on the impact and feasibility of a tax incentive to encourage firms to repatriate jobs back to the United States.
 
Amends federal patent law to revise requirements regarding the publication of patent applications. Requires abstracts (short summaries of inventions) included with patent applications (instead of the patent applications themselves, as under current law) to be published 18 months after the earliest filing date of the application.
 
Repeals certain requirements relating to: (1) submission of a redacted copy of an application; and (2) procedures to prevent protest and pre-issuance opposition to the grant of a patent.
 
Requires the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to give priority to the examination of a patent application by an institution of higher education or a patent holding company affiliated with such an institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1472-1473)
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House