Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on May 1, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 147 words.
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 This 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.
- Committees
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Policy area
- Commerce: 44 of 2,416 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.8%)
- Sponsor
- 5 of 198 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 1,284 words
- Subjects
- Intellectual propertyJudicial procedure and administrationJudicial review and appeals
- Latest action
- Oct 8, 2025: Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-282.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th H.R. 3152 Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 R · Introduced