RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025

This bill would make it easier for patent owners to get a court order that makes an infringer stop using their invention. After a court makes a final decision that a patent was infringed, the judge would normally issue a permanent stop order, unless the infringer can show strong reasons why the judge should not. This is the bill’s default rule for these cases, as described in both the text and summary.

The bill says today’s approach has made it harder to stop ongoing or willful copying, which can hurt smaller patent owners. It aims to protect individual inventors, colleges and universities, startups, and small or mid‑sized businesses from larger companies that might otherwise keep infringing.

• Who is affected: Patent owners; companies found to infringe; especially individual inventors, universities, startups, and small or mid‑sized businesses.
• What changes: After a final court ruling of infringement, the judge would usually order the infringer to stop, unless the infringer proves why not.
• When it applies: When a court issues a final judgment that a patent was infringed.