BSA strongly supports the US Patent & Trademark Office’s (USPTO) promoting innovation and patent quality, while taking steps to combat abuse of the system through: robust efforts to ensure patent quality, investments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve prior art searching and patent examination, inter partes and post-grant review mechanisms before the PTAB, initiatives to address the challenge of abusive third-party litigation funding, and licensing of standard essential patents (SEP) on FRAND terms.