Senate Bill Would Sanction People, Companies That Steal US Intellectual Property
Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., introduced legislation to sanction people or companies that “enable the significant and serial theft” of U.S. intellectual property. The bill would authorize blocking measures and asset freezes and allow the president…
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to include an entity on the Commerce Department’s Denied Persons List. “This bipartisan legislation will help end foreign theft of innovative technologies invented in the United States and will send a strong signal to bad actors across the globe,” Van Hollen said in a June 11 statement. The U.S. should “stop leaving an open door for China and other adversaries to steal intellectual property and undercut our strength,” Sasse said.