The history of government price-control policies that seek to impose price ceilings on goods and services…
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Ramirez Cartoon: Drug Price Control Poison

The history of government price-control policies that seek to impose price ceilings on goods and services is both long and replete with failure. That’s because price controls discourage innovation and investment, and lead to shortages in the marketplace, among other unintended consequences.

No targeted industry is immune from the predictable negative impacts of prices controls – not even prescription drugs, which seem to be a primary target in the price-control crosshairs of policymakers at all levels of government.

In his latest cartoon, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez sums up the negative consequences of prescription drug price control policies – whether they take the form of direct price caps, “negotiated” Medicare and other prices, or Most Favored Nation…[more]

May 28, 2025 • 01:05 PM

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CFIF Strongly Supports the RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2025 Print E-mail
Tuesday, February 25 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act, sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE) and Representatives Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA), was reintroduced in Congress. The bipartisan legislation would restore basic protections for America’s innovators by ensuring that injunctive relief is available from U.S. courts against known patent infringers.

In response, Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”) President Jeffrey Mazzella released the following statement expressing CFIF’s strong support for swift passage of the PROTECT Patent Rights Act:

"For more than two centuries, a guiding principle of U.S. patent law was the logical idea that parties found to be infringing on others’ patents without permission should be forced to stop the infringing activity. But that changed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in eBay v. MercExchange. That decision and its misapplication by lower U.S. courts effectively eliminated the ability of patent holders to secure injunctive relief against known infringers.

"As a result, America’s innovators and inventors have been left with little ability to effectively protect their intellectual property rights. Even worse, the practice of 'predatory infringement' – when it is cheaper to steal a patent than pay reasonable licensing fees for use of the patent – has increased. 

“Restoring the presumption of injunctive relief is vital to restoring fairness and commonsense to our nation’s patent system. CFIF strongly supports the PROTECT Patent Rights Act of 2025 and urges its swift passage.”

The Center for Individual Freedom is a constitutional and free-market advocacy organization with more than 300,000 activists and supporters nationwide.

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