House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Balancing Incentives Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 35, United States Code, to require a patent owner to consent to the filing of a petition for inter-partes review or post-grant review, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Marcy Kaptur D-OHWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 24, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 24, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5819.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. KAPTUR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 177, October 24, 2025, Page H4553):Commerce Clause--Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 72 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5819, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5819
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 August 14, 2026). 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
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Donald Davis (D-NC), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Richard McCormick (R-GA), James McGovern (D-MA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
- H.R. 4230 (119th) the Appropriations Compliance and Training Act
- H.R. 9550 (119th) Strategic Unmanned Systems Partnership Act
- H.Res. 154 (119th) Commemorating the heroic sacrifices of the people of Ukraine 3 years after Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal and unprovoked war…
- H.Res. 657 (119th) Affirming the President's promise not to raise the Social Security and Medicare retirement age.
- H.Res. 1082 (119th) Recognizing 250 years of Polish-American friendship and reaffirming the interest of the United States of America in the democracy…
- H.R. 2502 (119th) Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.