S. 708 119th Congress Senate

RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to establish a rebuttable presumption that a permanent injunction should be granted in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 25, 2025 Introduced by: Christopher A. Coons Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive Patent Rights Act of 2025 or the RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025

This bill establishes a rebuttable presumption for injunctive relief in patent infringement cases. Specifically, if a court enters a final judgment finding infringement of a right secured by patent, the patent owner shall be entitled to a rebuttable presumption that the court should grant a permanent injunction with respect to that infringing conduct.

(In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court held in eBay v. MercExchange that patent holders do not have an automatic right to a permanent injunction in a patent infringement case.)

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Judiciary Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 131

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC
for CISCO SYSTEMS INC · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
APPLE INC.
for APPLE INC · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
RADIUS ADVOCACY, LLC
for COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION PROMOTION (C4IP) · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
SIIA
for SOFTWARE & INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
for AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
MEDTRONIC, INC.
for MEDTRONIC INC · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
131 filings
SENATE
130 filings
Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
90 filings
Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)
80 filings
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
55 filings
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
44 filings
White House Office
44 filings
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
38 filings

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Cosponsors 1

Cotton, Tom

Arkansas · Feb 25, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 708: RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-708/

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"S. 708: RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-708/.

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S. 708, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-708/.

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