By Michael Borella — Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has released a new proposal to reform the text of 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Senator’s last effort in doing so died on the vine in 2019, purportedly due to stakeholders being too far apart in their visions of what patent eligibility should be all about. But with growing concern regarding China possibly eclipsing the U.S. in R&D of emerging technologies, there is a renewed impetus to fix at least some of the ambiguities introduced by the Supreme Court in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l and Mayo Collaborative…
