H.R. 1574 · 119th Congress

RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025

Introduced on Feb 25, 2025 by Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1). 5 cosponsors, 4 of them from another party. Latest action (Feb 25, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 25, 2025
Cosponsors
5
4 from the other party
Policy area
Commerce
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

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.

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Nathaniel MoranR-TX-1Sponsor

Democrats · 4

Republicans · 1

Roll calls

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No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Feb 25, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Feb 25, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Feb 25, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.12 reports
    $5.8M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CISCO SYSTEMS INC$1.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. High Tech Inventors Alliance12 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  3. AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION (AIPLA)6 reports
    $60K reported (all issues)
  4. Amazon.com Services LLC6 reports
    $26.5M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC$285.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  5. QUALCOMM INCORPORATED6 reports
    Federal contractor: QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC$93.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. APPLE INC.5 reports
    $13.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: APPLE INC$9,212 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  7. GSK (fka GLAXOSMITHKLINE INC.)5 reports
    $6.5M reported (all issues)
  8. Innovation Alliance5 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)
  9. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA5 reports
    $50.1M reported (all issues)
  10. Software & Information Industry Association5 reports
    $6.4M reported (all issues)
  11. AMGEN INC.4 reports
    $12.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMGEN INC.AI match · 99%
  12. US Inventor4 reports
    $30K reported (all issues)
  13. COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION PROMOTION (C4IP)2 reports
  14. Netlist, Inc.2 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  15. SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)2 reports
    $85K reported (all issues)
  16. Bayer Corporation (consolidated report)1 report
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  17. CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)
  18. LENOVO (UNITED STATES) INC.1 report
    $570K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.