Innovation is America’s backbone.
It creates jobs here and improves lives everywhere.
Let’s protect it.
Patents Save Lives
From diagnostics to therapeutics and vaccines, patent rights underpin the innovations responsible for saving millions of lives during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
IP Fosters Economic Growth
IP-intensive sectors, from film and music to high-tech manufacturing and life sciences, employ 45 million Americans and account for over one-third of total U.S. GDP.
IP Rights Tackle Global Challenges
Strong patent rights facilitate pioneering discoveries that are fit to address today's energy security, climate change, and public health concerns.
IP Rights Drive High-Value Creative Industries
Strong IP rights, from copyrights to trademarks, incentivize the development of creative works that fuel the economy and benefit the general public.
Predictable and high-quality intellectual property rights have propelled America’s innovative leadership ever since they were enshrined in the Constitution.
China’s surging innovation investments are a wake-up call to Congress
Andrei Iancu and David Kappos
March 27, 2024
Stories of IP in Action
Fact Check: The WHO Draft Treaty Would Sabotage Pandemic Preparedness
March 26, 2024
America’s strong intellectual property system played a pivotal role in the rapid global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patents provided crucial incentives for the development of life-saving vaccines, therapies, and diagnostic tests, all of which were distributed globally. However, despite these successes, there are ongoing efforts by certain global ...
New Op-Ed from Judges (ret.) Paul Michel and Kathleen O’Malley: Congress needs to clean up the Supreme Court’s mess on patents
March 18, 2024
Last week, C4IP board members and former federal judges Paul Michel and Kathleen O’Malley published an opinion piece in The Hill highlighting the dire need to pass the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act. The piece traces the origins of the current ...
Inventor Spotlight: Mark Dean
March 13, 2024
This month, C4IP is recognizing Mark Dean, a pioneer of personal computers. Dean was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee, in 1957, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Florida Atlantic University before becoming chief engineer of IBM’s personal computers division ...