S. 1553 · 119th Congress

PREVAIL Act

Introduced on May 1, 2025 by Christopher A. Coons (D-DE). 3 cosponsors, 1 of them from another party. Latest action (May 1, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
May 1, 2025
Cosponsors
3
1 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

A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to invest in inventors in the United States, maintain the United States as the leading innovation economy in the world, and protect the property rights of the inventors that grow the economy of the United States, and for other purposes.

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, May 1, 2025). Public domain.

Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act or the PREVAIL Act

This bill addresses various issues relating to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including by imposing additional requirements on administrative patent validity challenges (proceedings to review and potentially cancel issued patents) at the USPTO.

The bill modifies provisions relating to inter partes reviews (IPRs) and other administrative patent validity proceedings, including by

  • prohibiting an administrative patent judge who participated in deciding whether to institute an IPR (i.e., whether to allow the IPR to proceed based on the initial petition) from also participating in deciding the final outcome of the same IPR;
  • prohibiting a person (individual or entity) from petitioning for an IPR against a patent unless the person meets certain standing requirements (currently, any person may petition for an IPR);
  • prohibiting a person who has challenged a patent's validity in an IPR from raising the same challenges against the patent in other proceedings (e.g., district court) if the IPR has been instituted; and
  • raising the burden that the petitioner in an IPR must meet to invalidate a previously issued patent claim.

The bill also makes institutions of higher education (IHEs) and nonprofit entities that hold patents on behalf of IHEs eligible for reduced patent-related fees, including filing fees. (Currently, employees of IHEs are eligible for reduced fees but not the IHEs themselves.)

The bill also makes fees collected by the USPTO available for the USPTO's use without further appropriations from Congress.

Sponsor and cosponsors

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

Christopher A. CoonsD-DESponsor

Democrats · 2

Republicans · 1

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

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

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. May 1, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. May 1, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

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. High Tech Inventors Alliance11 reports
    $560K reported (all issues)
  2. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA10 reports
    $44.6M reported (all issues)
  3. COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION PROMOTION (C4IP)9 reports
  4. APPLE INC.7 reports
    $13.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: APPLE INC$9,212 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  5. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.7 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CISCO SYSTEMS INC$1.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION (AIPLA)5 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  7. ASSOCIATION FOR ACCESSIBLE MEDICINES5 reports
    $4.2M reported (all issues)
  8. Business Software Alliance5 reports
    $2.4M reported (all issues)
  9. GSK (fka GLAXOSMITHKLINE INC.)5 reports
    $6.6M reported (all issues)
  10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $250K reported (all issues)
  11. Innovation Alliance5 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)
  12. MEDTRONIC INC.5 reports
    $5.8M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: MEDTRONIC USA INC$10M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  13. MICROSOFT CORPORATION5 reports
    $12.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: MICROSOFT CORPORATION$443M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  14. QUALCOMM INCORPORATED5 reports
    Federal contractor: QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC$93.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  15. Software & Information Industry Association5 reports
    $6.4M reported (all issues)
  16. US Inventor5 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  17. Unified Patents, LLC5 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)
  18. 3M COMPANY4 reports
    $2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: 3M COMPANY$28.7M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  19. AMGEN INC.4 reports
    $12.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMGEN INC.AI match · 99%
  20. Amazon.com Services LLC4 reports
    $17.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC$285.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  21. BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION4 reports
    $6.8M reported (all issues)
  22. BSA, The Software Alliance (Formerly BSA Business Software Alliance, Inc)4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  23. CATERPILLAR INC.4 reports
    $5.5M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CATERPILLAR INC$188.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  24. Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform4 reports
    $410K reported (all issues)
  25. Cornell University4 reports
    $960K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CORNELL UNIVERSITY$4.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  26. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)4 reports
    $2.7M reported (all issues)
  27. VIATRIS INC.4 reports
    $2.2M reported (all issues)
  28. KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC.3 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTONAI match · 97%
  29. T1INTERNATIONAL USA3 reports
  30. Association of American Universities2 reports
    $342.8K reported (all issues)
  31. CloudFactors LLC2 reports
  32. ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION2 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  33. Bayer Corporation (consolidated report)1 report
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  34. CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)
  35. Fresenius Kabi USA LLC1 report
    $340K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: FRESENIUS KABI USA, LLCAI match · 100%
  36. LENOVO (UNITED STATES) INC.1 report
    $570K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • 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 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 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.