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The Innovation Act was introduced on February 5, 2015, by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). The bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, and was placed on the Union Calendar on July 29, 2015. Currently the bill has 27 cosponsors.
The Innovation Act was previously introduced in 2013, but the Senate did not respond with the introduction of a similar bill. In 2015, the House reintroduced the Innovation Act, and the Senate also introduced the similar PATENT Act.The full title of the bill is "To amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes."
GovTrack predicts that the Innovation Act has a 36% chance of being enacted.
