Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025

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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