Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act
Official title: To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, to increase transparency and oversight of third-party funding by foreign persons, to prohibit third-party… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, to increase transparency and oversight of third-party funding by foreign persons, to prohibit third-party funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and for other purposes.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 608.
Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act
This bill limits third-party financing of civil litigation by foreign entities in federal courts and establishes related disclosure requirements.
The bill makes it unlawful for a foreign state or sovereign wealth fund to provide any monetary support for a civil action in which it is not a named party. The bill also makes it unlawful for any party or counsel to receive monetary support for civil litigation from a foreign state or sovereign wealth fund that is not a party.
The bill also prohibits third-party litigation funding agreements involving money from a foreign state or sovereign wealth fund in which someone other than named parties or counsel of record receives a payment that is contingent on the outcome or proceeds from the civil action or from any matter within a portfolio that includes the civil action.
The bill requires any party or counsel in a civil action to disclose the name of any foreign person, state, or sovereign wealth fund that has agreed to provide monetary support for the civil action, has a right to receive a payment contingent upon the outcome of the civil action, or has the right to receive payment that is contingent on proceeds from any matter within a portfolio that includes the civil action.
The bill also requires parties to produce the agreement creating a contingent right to payment.
These requirements apply to claims that are pending on or commenced after this bill's date of enactment.
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- NAVIGATORS GLOBAL LLC (FORMERLY DC NAVIGATORS, LLC)
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
- RADIUS ADVOCACY, LLC
- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- SHELL USA, INC. (FKA SHELL OIL COMPANY)
- SIIA
Bodies those filers lobbied
- SENATE
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Treasury, Dept of
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- White House Office
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2675: Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2675/
"H.R. 2675: Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2675/.
H.R. 2675, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2675/.
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