[T]hat progress could be rolled back if Congress advances the RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2024, legislation that would reintroduce anticompetitive legal injunction practices similar to those in Europe.

If the RESTORE Patent Rights Act were to pass into law, the U.S. could see similar actions, whether it be at the hands of patent trolls or Chinese-based competitors that are doubling down on U.S. patent applications. If American agricultural manufacturers were to be accused of infringement by a patent troll or a foreign-based competitor seeking to undermine them, the threat of an injunction could force them to choose between giving into outsize settlement demands or risk halting the manufacture and sale of their products. Under either scenario, prices for consumers go up and access to technologies that farmers depend on decline.