[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9142]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE INNOVATION ACT STIFLES INNOVATION

  (Mr. MASSIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to think about where the 
hotbeds of innovation are in this country. They are at universities, 
where students and professors come up with new ideas. They are at our 
startups, where inventors and entrepreneurs pursue their dreams late 
into the night, toiling away, backed by venture capitalists who fund 
their dreams and their ideas.
  But why would venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, inventors, and 
universities be against a bill called the Innovation Act? I will tell 
you why. Because the Innovation Act stifles innovation.
  Mr. Speaker, would you take a lawnmower to your flower garden if you 
saw a weed in it? I sure wouldn't, but that is what the Innovation Act 
does. It will destroy and degrade our patent system in this country.
  I urge my colleagues to vote against the Innovation Act, H.R. 9.

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