Washington, Sept. 24 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) and Congressman Ben Cline (VA-06) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation focused on combating foreign digital piracy. The Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property (DEFEND IP) Act of 2026 is being led in the Senate by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Adam Schiff (D-CA). Text for this legislation can be found here.
Previous efforts to curb foreign digital piracy failed because they lacked due process, threatened free speech, and provided overly broad enforcement powers that risked harming legitimate websites and the open inte...