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S. 1546 Senate Commerce

Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025

Committee Consideration, still live
Introduced
May 1, 2025
Sponsor
Sen. Tillis, Thomas (R-NC)
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STAGE 2 OF 8 — COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

Currently in the Senate. Last action: senate subcommittee on intellectual property. hearings held. with printed hearing: s.hrg. 119-282 on Oct 8, 2025.

  1. Senate Introduced in Senate May 1, 2025
  2. Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. May 1, 2025
  3. Senate Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-282. Oct 8, 2025

Cosponsors

3

Subjects

Intellectual propertyJudicial procedure and administrationJudicial review and appeals

Committees

  • Judiciary Committee
    • [Referred To, May 1, 2025]

Summary

Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025This bill amends the law relating to patent subject matter eligibility to establish that only specified subject matter (e.g., a natural process wholly independent of human activity) is ineligible for patenting. (Currently, subject matter eligibility is determined by examining whether the claimed invention is directed to certain ineligible categories, and if so, whether there is an inventive concept. Subject matter eligibility is one of several requirements that an invention must satisfy in order to receive patent protection.)Under this bill, an invention shall be considered to involve patent-ineligible subject matter only if it falls within specified categories, such as (1) a mathematical formula that is not part of a useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition; (2) a mental process that is performed solely in the human mind; or (3) an unmodified human gene as the gene exists in the human body.

[Summary as of: Introduced in Senate]

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