Council for Innovation Promotion

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Government AgendaReports
Reaffirm and Refine: A Government Agenda for Intellectual Property (Edition 2)

For the United States to maintain its competitive edge on the global stage, we must lead in innovation. This is only achievable...

Congressional Innovation ScorecardReports
The Congressional Innovation Scorecard: Second Edition

First released in 2024, the Congressional Innovation Scorecard assesses and rates how the U.S. Congress as a whole — and its individual...

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA)
C4IP Patent Myth Video Series
Issue Briefs
Addressing Patent Myths

Activist groups routinely accuse companies of “abusing” the patent system by engaging in practices such as “royalty stacking,” “patent evergreening,” “product hopping,”...

Fact Check: The Myth of So-Called “Royalty Free” and “Open” Standards

The word “open” has become increasingly misused in the world of technology standards. In policy and antitrust terms, an open standard is...

Highlights from the October 8 PERA Hearing

On October 8, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) to examine...

Commerce Moves to Take Cut of Research Patents
American Institute of Physics
Counting Patents, Not Progress: Another Misdiagnosis by I-MAK
IPWatchdog
Letters
C4IP Letter to Senate and House IP Subcommittees on Designating October as National IP Month

Dear Chairmen Tillis and Issa and Ranking Members Schiff and Johnson: On behalf of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), I write...

Council for Innovation Promotion Urges Caution Regarding I-MAK’s New Report on Patents and Drug Pricing

WASHINGTON (October 20, 2025) — Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) Executive Director Frank Cullen released the following statement regarding a...

Inventor Spotlight: Malcom McLean

C4IP is honoring Malcom McLean (1913-2001), whose invention of containerized shipping revolutionized global trade. Born into a farming family in North Carolina,...

Op-Eds:

Op-Eds:

The U.S. Patent System Isn’t Broken,

04/18/2023

Blog:

Blog, Fact Checks:

Fact Check: There Is No Patent Quality Crisis,

04/18/2023

Videos:

Videos:

Does Section 1498 Really Allow the Government to Ignore Patent Protections?,

04/17/2023

Resources:

Resources:

C4IP Response to CMS Solicitation of Comments Concerning Initial Guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Medicare Drug Negotiation Program,

04/14/2023

Op-Eds:

Op-Eds:

America can defeat China and win the future if we do this one thing,

04/14/2023

Blog:

Blog:

Inventor Spotlight: Ronald J. Harp,

04/13/2023

News:

News:

WHO pushes for more access to COVID-19 drugs,

04/11/2023

Blog:

Blog:

Inventor Spotlight: Chester Greenwood,

04/10/2023

Op-Eds:

Op-Eds:

A Look Into the Growing Reluctance to Fund Startups,

04/06/2023

Op-Eds:

Op-Eds:

Big Tech Has Eviscerated America’s Patent System,

04/05/2023

Blog:

Blog:

Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Won’t Get off the Ground Without Strong IP Protections,

04/05/2023

Resources:

Resources:

C4IP Post-Hearing Brief RE: U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation No. 332-596: COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Supply, Demand, and TRIPS Agreement Flexibilities,

03/29/2023

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