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James Edwards
Feb 272 min read
Red Tape for Red Tape Makers
The robust economy under the first Trump administration was aided in part by an executive order that directed federal departments and...
James Edwards
Jan 163 min read
Biden’s Legacy: Pretty Shabby
As Joe Biden’s presidency comes to an end, the time has come for taking stock of his performance in that position of public trust. Judged...
James Edwards
Dec 2, 20243 min read
PREVAIL Act Will Bolster Property Rights
Just before Congress recessed for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee moved the most proproperty-rights legislation in...
James Edwards
Aug 23, 20243 min read
Kamala Harris’s Price Controls Fraud
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has pledged an economic policy of government price controls. Her anti-“price gouging”...
James Edwards
Jun 28, 20243 min read
Bricks Tumble from Administrative State’s Walls
The latest greatest hits at the U.S. Supreme Court further curb the excesses of the Administrative State by restoring an important aspect...
James Edwards
Mar 27, 20243 min read
Force-Feeding U.S. Electric Vehicles . . . Despite The Downsides
The Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate has come—in the form of an Environmental Protection Agency emissions rule. Biden’s...
James Edwards
Sep 26, 20233 min read
IRA, Sen. Manchin and the Future of Drug Innovation
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Law That Isn’t Red or White—and Sure Isn’t Green,” Sen. Joe Manchin claims his...
James Edwards
Jul 24, 20233 min read
Monopoly on a Bad Agenda
The Federal Trade Commission has thrown so much spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, it’s made a royal mess of the U.S. antitrust...
James Edwards
Jul 1, 20233 min read
Sen. Sanders Wants to Repeat a Policy Failure
What do you get when you cross a self-proclaimed socialist with a U.S. Senate committee gavel? You get legislative power used to push...
James Edwards
May 30, 20233 min read
Half a Loaf Reagan Would Have Taken
Is the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the vehicle for dealing with the federal debt limit and avoiding a fiscally irresponsible default by...
James Edwards
May 17, 20233 min read
No Quiet Title for Innovators
The injustice Centripetal Networks has found itself facing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—AKA patent death squad—proves several...
James Edwards
Mar 16, 20233 min read
Congress, Supreme Court One-Two Punch for WOTUS, Admin State
In the latest round of Administrative State ping-pong, Congress has taken the first step toward disapproving an Obama-Biden-era EPA rule...
James Edwards
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Property Rights on SCOTUS Docket
On the first Monday this October, the opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s next session, the high court will hear oral argument in...
James Edwards
Aug 25, 20223 min read
Warning: PTAB Is Hazardous to America's Competitive Health
PTAB harms U.S. competitiveness. It undermines secure, private property rights vital to our competitiveness in innovation. The Patent...
James Edwards
Jul 9, 20223 min read
Lawmakers’ Light Shed on PTAB
Twin hearings in the U.S. Senate and House Intellectual Property Subcommittees recently drew insightful, important questions and thoughts...
James Edwards
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Just Rhetoric on Inflation
There he goes again. President Biden’s launched yet another round of blame-shifting for his 40-year-high inflation. And he’s pushing...
James Edwards
Jun 6, 20223 min read
Biden’s Contributions to Rising Inflation
“. . . [T]he idea we’re going to be able . . . to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term, nor is...
James Edwards
Dec 20, 20213 min read
The Administrative State’s New Lease on Life in Washington
A year into the Biden administration, a characteristic has emerged that’s emblematic of its central approach to achieving its policy...
James Edwards
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Lessons from Messing with Medicare
In 1989, a powerful Washington politician messed with Medicare. Grandma and Grandpa weren’t happy. The guy who was untouchable in the...
James Edwards
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Restore American Inventing? Or Gut American Invention?
Let’s get one thing straight: The “Restoring the America Invents Act” will further weaken U.S. patent reliability and certainty. This as...
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