MAR 24, 2026 | US | POSITION PAPER

US: Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Technology Coalition – USPTO Patent Policy Promotes Financial Speculation in USPTO’s Own Errors

This report documents how the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has steered the USPTO to favor financial speculators and so-called non-practicing entities (NPEs). Tilting the litigation playing field in favor of entities that buy up weak or invalid patents to sue productive US companies, USPTO is now refusing to correct its own patent examination errors, despite a statutory obligation to make such corrections if it finds a “reasonable likelihood” that an issued patent claim is invalid in conjunction with an Inter Partes Review (IPR) petition.