Our country’s technological and economic leadership is at risk as U.S. innovation capabilities have stagnated while those of other nations have advanced.
Since 2008, the number of foreign-origin patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted annually has surpassed the number of domestic-origin patents. And between 1999 and 2009, the U.S. share of global research and development spending dropped, while the share of Asia as a whole rose and exceeded the U.S. share in 2009.
