{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://rohrabacher.house.gov/press-release/rohrabacher-stop-anti-innovation-bill", "Rohrabacher:  Stop the Anti-Innovation Bill", "2013-12-03", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Dana Rohrabacher", "R000409", "rohrabacher.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, Monday called on members of Congress to postpone action on a \u201cpatent reform\u201d bill passed by the Judiciary Committee just before Thanksgiving and now swiftly making its way to a full House vote.\n\u201cIt seems that we have to pass this bill to find out what\u2019s in it,\u201d said the congressman, vice chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\nRohrabacher, in a 30-minute speech on the House floor, charged that the bill, authored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-VA, has not been given a full legislative day between moving from committee to the full membership.\nCalling the bill an effort to make \u201cthe most sweeping changes to the American patent system in history,\u201d Rohrabacher argued that the impetus behind the rush to a vote comes from \u201cmega-multinational corporations\u201d that have been trying for decades to neuter U.S. inventor protections in the face of global competition.\n\u201cI wish that I could focus simply on the bad provisions of this new bill, the Innovation Act, H.R. 3309, which is expected to be on the floor later this week,\u201d Rohrabacher lamented. \u201cBut if the bill is bad, the process being used to stifle debate and ram this down our Congressional throats is even worse.\u201d\nThe congressman said his colleagues have been denied a fair process in which credible opponents from academia, industry, and small inventors themselves were given little opportunity to air their views.\nHe said studies have shown that most patent infringement cases are not frivolous. Instead, he said, small inventors will be discouraged from defending their intellectual property rights against large corporations who can afford to lose lawsuits.\n\u201cThis schedule suggests the fix was in,\u201d said Rohrabacher. \u201cThe clear message to little inventors: give thanks for your intellectual property rights, because you may not have them by this time next year.\u201d\nThe bill\u2019s supporters say it takes aim at so-called \u201cpatent trolls,\u201d but Rohrabacher, rejecting that pejorative characterization, said the only people it hits are small, independent inventors.\n\u201cThese so-called villainous trolls,\u201d contended Rohrabacher, \u201care patent holders, or companies who represent patent holders. They are engaged in defending their rights against the infringement of those patents that they own.\u201d\nRohrabacher asked his colleagues to postpone a vote on the bill until next year.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://rohrabacher.house.gov/press-release/rohrabacher-stop-anti-innovation-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7008811701089144, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}