One proposal addressing patent reform that is currently pending before Congress is the SHIELD Act, which was introduced by Representatives Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz on August 1.
The SHIELD Act introduced yesterday in the House by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R- Utah, would help protect innovators from trolls by making the plaintiff pay the legal costs when their baseless lawsuits are ultimately rejected in court.
Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.