Every day, university researchers make discoveries in biology, chemistry, computer science, and dozens of other disciplines.
And those discoveries tangibly benefit ordinary Americans — thanks to an often-overlooked law that allows academic institutions to patent those discoveries and license them to companies, who then take significant risks in an attempt to turn those early-stage insights into useful products. That law, the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which then-Senator Joe Biden supported, helped transform the United States into the technological powerhouse it is today.
Now, President Biden faces a choice: whether or not to undermine the law that has served us so well.
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