Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill prevents foreign entities from using U.S. courts to enforce judgments or arbitration awards against Americans who complied with U.S. sanctions or export controls. If a U.S. company stopped doing business with a sanctioned country to follow the law, a foreign court ruling against that company cannot be collected in the United States.
• American companies or individuals sued under these circumstances can move the case to federal court, where the judge must dismiss it immediately. This gives businesses a fast, reliable way to end retaliatory foreign lawsuits.
• The bill specifically protects the rights of terrorism victims and people with contracts that already call for disputes to be resolved in U.S. courts or U.S.-based arbitration. Those claims are not blocked by this law.
• The law applies retroactively to cases already pending in court when it is enacted, meaning companies currently facing these kinds of foreign enforcement actions would get immediate protection.
• Introduced with bipartisan support by Sens. Cornyn and Padilla, the bill reflects a policy goal of ensuring that foreign governments and entities cannot weaponize their legal systems to punish Americans for following U.S. national security rules.

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