High-tech innovators in Washington State have made our region a world leader in creating important new technologies. Supporting these innovators was one of my major goals during the years I spent in Congress, and it still is today as I work with entrepreneurs, mostly based in our state, to create, fund, and develop new businesses.
But innovation doesn’t happen by itself. Among other things, it requires a fair system for protecting intellectual property, especially patents, so that innovators can get the benefit of their inventions and are encouraged to keep on innovating.
