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How A Funding Provision For PTO Almost Derailed The AIA

Law360, New York (June 25, 2015, 12:15 PM EDT) -- Four years ago this week, 304 members of the House of Representatives voted for the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. In the following 12 weeks, the AIA would pass the Senate and be signed by the president. Much has been written about the legislative history of the AIA. But one story that is rarely told concerns how the bill, which had passed the Senate 95-5 and was approved by the House Judiciary Committee 32-3, almost never made it to the House floor....

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