[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2466 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2466

   To amend title 18, United States Code to provide for strengthened 
  protections against theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2013

 Ms. Lofgren introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 18, United States Code to provide for strengthened 
  protections against theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Private Right of Action Against 
Theft of Trade Secrets Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. STRENGTHENING PROTOOECOOTION AGAINST THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS.

    Section 1832 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Any person who suffers injury by reason of a violation of 
this section may maintain a civil action against the violator to obtain 
appropriate compensatory damages and injunctive relief or other 
equitable relief. No action may be brought under this subsection unless 
such action is begun within 2 years of the date of the act complained 
of or the date of the discovery of the damage.
    ``(d) For purposes of this section, the term `without 
authorization' shall not mean independent derivation or working 
backwards from a lawfully obtained known product or service to divine 
the process which aided its development or manufacture.''.
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