Bill > HR9474

This bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2024, aims to amend Title 35 of the United States Code to address matters relating to patent subject matter eligibility. The key provisions of the bill are: (1) eliminating all judicial exceptions to patent eligibility, (2) making any invention or discovery that can be claimed as a useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter eligible for patent protection, except for mathematical formulas not part of an eligible invention, mental processes performed solely in the human mind, unmodified human genes as they exist in the body, unmodified natural materials as they exist in nature, and substantially economic, financial, business, social, cultural, or artistic processes, and (3) allowing courts to determine patent eligibility at any time during an infringement action, with limited discovery relevant only to eligibility. The bill seeks to provide more clarity and consistency in the interpretation of patent eligibility under Section 101.