The possibility of the most significant restructuring of patent law in 56 years is growing increasingly likely. In … January 2008, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a draft report on the Senate's patent reform proposal, Senate bill 1145 … approval and debate on the Senate proposal later this spring.The current Patent Act was last substantially revised in 1952 …

This article presents a new method of analyzing patent reform proposals through the use of differential impact analysis …. Congressional efforts to address the crisis of confidence in the U.S. patent system have failed up to the present day. If Congress … is to have any hope of passing much needed legislative reform to the Patent Act, the supporters of patent reform will …