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HR 5811 119th Congress House Commerce

Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025

Introduced: October 24, 2025 Introduced by: Massie, Thomas Republican · Kentucky See on congress.gov
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Restoring America's Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025

This bill revises several aspects of patent law.

The bill changes the U.S. patent system back to a first-to-invent system, in which the first inventor to conceive of an invention is entitled to a patent. Currently, the first person to file an application that meets all the necessary requirements is entitled to the patent.

Several types of administrative patent challenge proceedings are abolished, as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) body that decides those proceedings.

The bill relaxes the standard for what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter. The only ineligible inventions shall be those that exist in nature independent or prior to human activity or that exist solely in the human mind.

The bill also makes it easier for a patent owner that has won an infringement case in court to secure a permanent injunction against the infringing defendant. Specifically, there shall be a presumption that further infringement would cause irreparable harm to the prevailing patent owner, and the burden shall be on the infringer to prove otherwise. (Currently, a prevailing patent owner seeking a permanent injunction must prove, among other things, that further infringement would cause irreparable harm.)

The bill limits what types of publications shall be treated as prior art that could be used to make an invention be considered to be anticipated or obvious (and therefore not patentable).

The bill authorizes the USPTO to keep and spend all the fees that it collects.

What's happening now October 24, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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 Cosponsors 6
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Luna, Anna Paulina
Florida · Jan 13, 2026
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Cloud, Michael
Texas · Oct 24, 2025
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Davidson, Warren
Ohio · Oct 24, 2025
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Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Oct 24, 2025
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Oct 24, 2025
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Roy, Chip
Texas · Oct 24, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5811: Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5811/
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"H.R. 5811: Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5811/.
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H.R. 5811, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5811/.
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