00:00:42.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:19.000So we've done this documentary and it really sets up the dynamic with America and China in the innovation and technology race, comparing it to what America and the Soviet Union went through in the space race back in the 60s.
00:01:35.000And we make the case that we have to make sure that we win when it comes to the innovation race.
00:01:40.000America needs to have more inventions, more inventors, and we need to stay on the cutting edge when it comes to innovation in order to outpace and beat China.
00:01:50.000And we've got a real problem right now in America.
00:01:53.000We used to have very strong laws that would protect intellectual property and patents.
00:01:58.000During the Obama administration, a Republican-controlled Congress passed a bill that Obama signed into law that weakened our patent system.
00:02:07.000And we make the case in the movie that we need to go back and strengthen it.
00:02:18.000It's really an America-first movie making the case that we need to strengthen our intellectual property system so that we can beat China in the innovation race.
00:02:28.000So what are the current patent laws and what changes do you think should be made to them?
00:02:33.000So prior to 2000, around 2010, maybe a little bit before and going into about 2012, prior to that time period, we had pretty strong patent laws in America.
00:02:47.000And the patent laws are actually protected or the patents and the right to hold your own intellectual property is protected in the Constitution in Article 1 of the Constitution.
00:02:59.000So this actually was a revolutionary idea that our founders had that an inventor and a person who thinks of things with their mind, that intellectual property belongs to the person who thinks of it.
00:03:14.000And if you come up with a brand new idea, you share it with the whole world through the patent system.
00:03:19.000So you put it all out there for the world to see and the world to benefit from, you get exclusive use of that patent for a fixed period of time.
00:03:30.000The problem right now is that a new court was set up back in 2012 that is an administrative court called the PTAB.
00:03:38.000I really call it the death panel for patents.
00:03:41.000And so now instead of going through the regular court system, if your patent is challenged, you're going through this court of lawyers who are experts.
00:03:52.000And you and I both know when experts start making decisions, usually it's not the right decision.
00:03:57.000But the very same office, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patents, and then they have the P tab in the same building and invalidate the very patents that they granted.
00:04:09.000It's a real problem right now, and it's preventing innovation from happening here as it should.
00:05:59.000I've heard inventors who are inventing tomorrow's technologies.
00:06:04.000It could be for something that is a medical device.
00:06:07.000It could be for a national security type system.
00:06:10.000It could be just for a jump rope or water balloons.
00:06:13.000But I've heard from inventors who have said that it's better to just take the idea and put it in a filing cabinet and lock the filing cabinet and keep it safe in there rather than letting the world see your invention because America is not protecting those property rights.
00:06:29.000That is not a good place for us to be when China is trying to be very innovative in the technology space and trying to control the future.
00:06:38.000We have to be able to beat them at that game and be better than they are.
00:06:43.000So what is the current law then for the patent?
00:06:46.000Is it 20 years for a patent or what is the current law on the road?
00:06:50.000It's 20 years and that part is not the problem.
00:06:53.000The problem is more what they are allowing to be patents patented.
00:06:59.000So one of the things that we think needs to happen is that if you are the first person to invent something, then you should be the person who gets a patent on it if you can prove you were the first one to invent it rather than the person who runs to the patent office and files the paperwork first.
00:07:14.000There's also a problem with injunctive relief that our court systems have created.
00:07:20.000So if you are able to say, no, I actually own this patent, it's mine, you should be able in normal circumstances, if somebody's squatting on your property and your house or your business, you'd be able to get them off your property or be able to charge them rent or whatever it may be.
00:07:38.000Right now, we have a system where you can't get that relief from it, even if you find that people are infringing on your patents.
00:07:46.000And then the problem with the P tab right now is that it is invalidating patents that should still remain valid.
00:07:53.000Either that or if they should have been invalidated, then the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should never have granted the patent in the first place.
00:08:01.000Okay, so then the policy solution then is just to kind of clean up some of the bureaucracy associated with it.
00:08:14.000And Senator Coons has a bill that has a lot of similarities to what Congressman Thomas Massey has in his bill.
00:08:23.000I tend to prefer the things that are in Thomas Massey's bill because he does more and he's more freedom oriented.
00:08:31.000But right now, even if we don't get everything that I want, there are places where Democrats and Republicans agree we have got to fix this problem.
00:08:41.000And the problem that we're facing right now from the bill that was passed into law in the Obama administration is that big tech came in and they wanted to make it easier so that they didn't have to pay patent.
00:08:56.000They did not have to pay for other people's patents.
00:08:59.000So they could use the property and the ideas that other people came up with and use it in their own products without having to pay for it.
00:09:07.000And so they lobbied, got Congress to pass laws that benefit big tech, but actually harm the small inventors in America.
00:09:16.000And we need to go back and make sure that we're taking care of those smaller inventors.
00:09:21.000And oftentimes, the people who are the smaller inventors, they're not at all politically minded.
00:09:28.000They're the mathematicians and the scientists and just the people who come up with some nifty idea that would make a product better and make our lives easier.
00:09:38.000And they're not engaged in politics and they really should not have to be engaged in politics.
00:09:43.000That's part of the reason why at Tea Party Patriots, we want to do what we can to help them because the Constitution protects these rights or natural God-given rights in the first place.
00:09:55.000So people can find it at SalemNow.com.
00:10:13.000I encourage you to watch it and then bring other people over and have other people watch it either with you or encourage them to watch it and talk about it.
00:10:22.000We did this documentary so we can get the conversation started because we think it's really important as we look at the threats we see from China.
00:12:05.000It was all just Republican good, Democrat bad, Republican good, Democrat bad.
00:12:09.000And yeah, there was some Tea Party energy, but they struggled.
00:12:13.000If it wasn't for the Rush Limbaugh program or Mark Levin, there really wasn't a lot of air cover to be able to get your voice out as a grassroots conservative.
00:12:22.000And now there's an entire infrastructure, an entire movement of media personalities, of influencers, of people that are really able to platform and expose.
00:12:30.000And Paul Ryan now knows there's really not a lot of media allies left for him.
00:12:35.000And that's one of the things that the establishment regime conservative, conservative in quotes, Republicans are lamenting.
00:12:44.000There's not a lot of places left for them to go to kind of spread their nonsense.
00:12:49.000I mean, he'll get a lot of credibility if he goes on CNN or MSNBC, but I just don't think Paul Ryan would be able or would want to do a whole hour on this program.
00:13:34.000Can you show me anybody on the left that has a major following that actively invites conservatives to challenge them?
00:13:46.000Can you show me a single person on the left that actively goes into environments of which are not friendly and asks for disagreement?
00:13:59.000Now, you might say Bill Maher, that might be a good one, but Bill Maher also does it on his home turf with dozens of writers that have prescripted jokes and one-liner is ready for him.
00:14:16.000But the equivalent would be this: how many liberals would be willing to go to a Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner or to an NRA deal and take questions and film it?
00:14:35.000That is the equivalent of what we're about to do at Turning Point USA when I'm going to University of California, Santa Barbara, or UC Davis, or Ohio State, or University of Illinois, Chicago.
00:14:45.000That's the equivalent to go into a hostile territory, take any question.
00:14:49.000By the way, it's not just questions from students.
00:16:26.000I think we need to talk as if we are the underdog.
00:16:29.000I think we are the underdog going in 202024.
00:16:32.000In fact, I think the Democrats are likely going to hold on to power.
00:16:36.000We're currently not building that machine, so we got to get to work.
00:16:38.000We got to go to places that we usually don't go.
00:16:41.000It's not going to happen automatically.
00:16:43.000It has to be an investment into that infrastructure every single day.
00:16:51.000Look, it is time to consider a rollover of that 401k into an IRA.
00:16:56.000The investment world is completely different in 2023, and you cannot do the same thing as last year.
00:17:02.000Woke companies are aggressively implementing ESG.
00:17:06.000Interest rates are going up, and inflation is still lingering.
00:17:09.000If you have over $150,000, now is the time to move your money to a biblical responsible investing strategy with my friends at PAX Financial Group.
00:17:17.000I put my money with PAX, and guess what?
00:17:19.000I just got to report it's up 12% since last year, and that's while everyone else is down.
00:17:49.000For the loyal listeners of our program, you've heard me mention ERC, the employee retention credit.
00:17:57.000You've heard me mention it a couple times.
00:17:59.000And I've been blown away by the news that we have received of how many of you have been able to successfully get credits from the federal government.
00:18:54.000And at the numbers as of this morning, just from the last time you had us come on here, Charlie, over 200 business owners and over $24 million has been claimed and paid out through the ERC just to your listeners.
00:19:12.000So, Jason, give our audience a little picture of who are these people.
00:19:15.000They're small business owners, they're plumbers, they're electricians.
00:19:18.000Who are the type of people that are mainly calling you and asking for help?
00:19:23.000Well, and that's actually what I love about the employee retention credit: it is, it's not just a handout to anyone out there that owns a business.
00:19:32.000It's only going to those business owners that retained their W-2 employees during the pandemic during 2020 and 2021.
00:19:42.000And so, it's a true win for business owners.
00:19:45.000This is, by the way, this is the last COVID stimulus money available to business owners.
00:20:29.000And also, I just want to say, because there is this employee retention credit, there's a lot of fraudsters out there right now, a lot of them.
00:22:00.000You know, we have this new term that somehow came about during COVID called essential or non-essential.
00:22:08.000And so if you were deemed non-essential and you had to close or partially close, then you qualify.
00:22:15.000If you had a revenue reduction that meets the parameters, you qualify.
00:22:19.000And then the latest legislation change, Charlie, that's blown the hinges off the door is if you had supply chain issues, if you were affected during the pandemic, any of your processes.
00:22:30.000Yeah, the only ones that are excluded from this really are public entities.
00:22:34.000Like they can't, you know, obviously they can't take stimulus from themselves.
00:22:38.000So private schools, churches, nonprofits, certainly traditional style businesses that had W-2 employees.
00:22:48.000Even Forbes magazine came out and said the IRS anticipates about 80% of all businesses would qualify for ERC funds.
00:27:11.000Okay, so that is a short montage from the cut, where they say whites are good at genocide, at hate, at violence, and all these sorts of things.
00:27:19.000Could you imagine if there was a video of white people saying things about blacks in that regard?
00:29:24.000And they also think they're not being racist by saying that.
00:29:30.000Taught in colleges all across America, they are teaching that blacks have immunity from the sin of racism.
00:29:40.000So Scott Adams, who is the founder of Dilbert and also a very smart man and a very, let's just say, deep thinker on a lot of different issues, came out and he said, based on this data, you could call blacks, quote, a hate group.
00:30:01.000I think that probably goes too far, but here's what he's basically saying.
00:30:05.000He's saying, based on this data, a portion of black Americans have hate to abolish and eliminate white people.
00:30:13.000The essence of what he was saying is totally and completely true.
00:30:20.000The campaign against Scott Adams has been overwhelming.
00:30:24.000It has been aggressive, same with Woody Harrelson, to cancel him, to drop him, to ridicule him.
00:30:32.000And let me just add one more thing to this.
00:30:34.000I am exhausted talking about race all the time.
00:30:39.000I do not think race is determinative or predictive of your behavior.
00:30:52.000What they are trying to do is make race matter.
00:30:56.000That is why you're seeing anti-white beliefs grow and metastasize.
00:31:03.000If you read critical theory, in fact, we have a whistleblower here of somebody who is a student in Pennsylvania at a medical school where they are teaching medical students why it's wrong to believe in colorblindness.
00:31:21.000They say colorblindness is actually racist.
00:31:25.000Now, I never liked the term colorblindness because obviously you're not going to be blind to it, but you could be color agnostic.
00:32:46.000It doesn't tell me anything about you.
00:32:49.000Instead, we are going in the opposite direction and we're creating neo-segregation.
00:32:58.000It's really a sad thing that we're seeing.
00:33:00.000And Scott Adams mentioned it and noticed it, and they're trying to destroy his life without giving him a chance to clarify why he said this or why does he believe it.
00:33:13.000Segregation, unfortunately, makes for very good politics for the Democrat Party.
00:33:18.000They've always been focused on segregation-type politics.
00:33:25.000This is why when I go to college campuses, some of the most viral content that I have ever put out is me asking college students who pretend to be anti-racist, do they believe in black-only dormitories?
00:33:43.000And one after the other, they will enthusiastically support black-only dormitories.
00:33:50.000The people that tell us that they are fighting against racism want to reinstitute segregation in our country.
00:34:32.000I refuse to live in a country or participate in any sort of political project where I am supposed to make a value judgment on somebody based on how they look.
00:34:46.000No sort of academic jargon or nonsense can make me think otherwise.
00:34:51.000Therefore, there needs to be a serious question asked: why is it that one in four blacks, 15 million people, think it's not okay to look the way that I look?