RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025

HR 1574, the RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025, would change patent law by creating a rebuttable presumption that courts should grant permanent injunctions to stop ongoing or willful patent infringement once a final judgment of infringement is issued. This would directly affect patent owners, particularly individual inventors, universities, startups, and small businesses, who often struggle to obtain such court orders under current standards. The key mechanism shifts the burden to defendants to prove why an injunction should not be granted, reversing a recent trend where courts rarely issued injunctions for patent infringement. The bill aims to restore a traditional legal standard intended to protect inventors' exclusive rights to their innovations.