Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- May 1, 2025
What it does
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 This bill amends the law relating to patent subject matter eligibility to establish that only specified subject matter (e.g., a natural process wholly independent of human activity) is ineligible for patenting. (Currently, subject matter eligibility is determined by examining whether the claimed invention is directed to certain ineligible categories, and if so, whether there is an inventive concept. Subject matter eligibility is one of several requirements that an invention must satisfy in order to receive patent protection.) Under this bill, an invention shall be considered to involve patent-ineligible subject matter only if it falls within…
Official summary · Introduced in Senate · May 1, 2025
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
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