House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 30, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Jul 30, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9221.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 124, July 30, 2024, Page H4964):Article 1, Section 8, clause 8, The single subject of this legislation is: ``To amend title 35, United States Code, to establish a rebuttable presumption that a permanent injunction should be granted in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 30, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 251 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9221, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9221
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 30, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 30, 2024). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
5 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
4 of 5 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Scott Peters (D-CA), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Chip Roy (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nathaniel Moran.
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- H.R. 7233 (118th) Jenna Quinn Law of 2024
- H.Res. 1285 (118th) Condemning the pro-abortion policies of the Biden administration.
- H.R. 5029 (118th) Strong Communities Act of 2023
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.