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Don’t Let Big Business Stack The Deck Against Small Inventors

Big business lobbyists are winning an obscure — but hugely consequential — battle over the future of the judicial system. If these lobbyists continue to get their way, small businesses and their workers will be the biggest losers.

The lobbyists are quietly waging their battle in state legislatures across the country and also in our nation’s capital. They recently scored another victory in Georgia, which became the latest of several states to pass legislation that makes it harder for small businesses to sue larger companies that steal their technology. And Congress is considering making a similar change at the national level through the deceptively named Litigation Transparency Act.

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