“Downgrading patent rights – which are fundamentally property rights – will seriously constrict innovation and the ability of domestic manufacturers to turn good ideas into products consumer want, and thus good jobs for working Americans.”

"We rely on the U.S. patent system to protect our investments, and those protections provide an incentive for us to continue manufacturing in the United States.”

Three-fourths of executives at venture capital-backed startups say patents are vital to getting financing.

A former IP official in Beijing High People's Court China said of 2007 patent legislation: "…it is more friendly to the infringers…will make the patent less reliable, easier to be challenged and cheaper to be infringed.”