Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025
Senate Committee Reviews Patent Eligibility Restoration Act to Broaden What Inventions Can Be Patented
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Congress would rewrite the rules for what kinds of inventions can get a patent, aiming to make decisions more predictable for inventors and businesses.
- The bill says most “useful” inventions should be eligible for patents, and it would wipe out judge-made limits that have kept some ideas from being patented.
- It would still block patents on things like pure math formulas by themselves, mental-only activities, and unmodified human genes or unmodified natural materials.
- It would also block patents on processes that are mainly business, financial, social, cultural, or artistic—unless the process can’t practically be done without a machine like a computer.
- In patent lawsuits, judges could decide patent eligibility early in a case (with limited, eligibility-only fact gathering) when key facts aren’t truly disputed.
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Milestones
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in Senate
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Congressional Bill
Official Title
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025
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