Against the Giants

Big tech’s betrayal of America — unveiled. Inside the untold story of how big tech giant Qualcomm ripped-off one of the most important patented innovations in American history and shipped it off to China with the help from the US government. Did the Obama Admin provide cover?

Why is a 2 - 3 year patent case now in its 12th year? What do you think?

“. . . this shouldn’t be tried to a jury, in my opinion.” That’s what the judge said. Then ruled that our patents require capacitors to down-convert radio signals. - They can’t. - Our patents don’t claim that. - Science doesn’t support it. Appeal filed for the second time.

Order: (attached)

Procedural win: the Federal Circuit denied Qualcomm’s motion to dismiss our appeal, ordered jurisdiction to be briefed with the merits, and put our appeal on an expedited track. We file the first brief in 14 days. Then a fast briefing cycle. Last brief due March 23. We’re anxious to put the facts on the record. More to come. Thank you for the support and for following our story, Against The Giants.

@anduriltech @DeptofWar Agree. We can’t win with blueprints alone. Some of that funding needs to go to real IP protection and enforcement, so our adversaries can’t just copy our tech without repercussions.

We can't win with blueprints. Consistent funding for the @DeptofWar is critical to prepare for conflicts with our adversaries.

America loves a David vs. Goliath story. But we don't talk about what happens when Goliath controls the rules, the courts, and the system itself. Here we are.

@CommerceGov Restoring manufacturing (our capabilities, not just jobs) also means keeping the IP and technical know here so we don't offshore the future again.

President Trump is putting the American worker FIRST and leaving globalization BEHIND. We are bringing manufacturing back to America to make quality products, create good jobs, and revitalize the American economy.

@CommerceGov Agree, and it’s not just manufacturing jobs. We’ve been exporting IP and technical know-how too. If we want real resilience, we need to keep the high value engineering, process knowledge , and proprietary tech here, not just the final assembly.

Globalization has FAILED. Secretary Lutnick at the World Economic Forum: “The Trump Administration and I are here to make a very clear point—globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy… and it has left America behind.” America is done exporting jobs and offshoring its future. We will no longer give in to globalization.

The patent system wasn't built to protect corporations. It was built to protect inventors. So what happens when it stops working as intended and the biggest players learn to exploit it? That's exactly what we're up against.

@howardlutnick @MicronTech Absolutely, bringing semiconductor manufacturing home is a huge win for jobs and national security. The other half is ensuring American innovators' IP is strongly protected so we don't just build it here, but own and defend the breakthroughs too. Great step forward!

Great to visit my home state of New York, breaking ground in upstate Trump Country with @MicronTech CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Central New York will be the home of the MegaFab, the greatest $100B memory semiconductor plant. This is the foundation of Micron’s $200B commitment to America, creating 50,000 high tech jobs thanks to our administration’s focus on bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States!!

Some innovations don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they challenge what everyone else has already accepted as “impossible.” More often, it's small innovators who disrupt the market - not big tech. This is what must be protected in America.

@howardlutnick Congratulations! The next step is to make sure the U.S. remains the best place to invent and protect American innovators' inventions.

Yesterday, we launched the largest semiconductor investment in American history, joined by Ingrid D. Larson of the American Institute in Taiwan and TECRO Representative Alexander Tah-Ray Yui as we advanced the historic America First trade and investment partnership led by President Trump. This Taiwan agreement represents the largest semiconductor reshoring commitments in American history. It's going to drive $250B in corporate semiconductor investment as well as $250 billion in Taiwan government supported small and mid sized semiconductor supply chain building in America. U.S. advanced manufacturing coupled with this deal will bring chip production back home, create high-paying American jobs, and secure our economic and national security for decades to come.

America was built by people who couldn’t stop tinkering. Before billion-dollar monopolies. Before Big Tech capture. Before innovation became something you had to ask permission for. This is how real inventors start. 🇺🇸

Agree, supporting domestic semiconductor manufacturing is important. We also need to deal with U.S. tech giants setting up shop in China and transferring critical IP, which is the cost for market access. Tighten outbound tech controls, enforce US IP, and rebuild a patent system that defends innovators.

Yesterday, @POTUS signed a Proclamation to address national security risks from semiconductor imports- supporting domestic manufacturing, strengthening supply chains, and securing America’s technological future.

It’s bad enough having to endure years of litigation while the infringer keeps profiting off your invention and uses those profits to bankroll the fight against you. Without access to outside capital, smaller innovators get bled dry, forced into lowball settlements or pressured to walk away. This bill wouldn’t have curbed abuse; it would’ve handed Big Tech another tool to choke off startups and bury legitimate claims.

It’s not always Red vs Blue. Sometimes it’s David vs Goliath. Yesterday, we killed a bill in @JudiciaryGOP that would have forced plaintiffs, like small inventors, to disclose their financial backing to deep pocketed corporations in expensive lawsuits.

You’re right to raise alarms. And we should be honest about the full pipeline: it’s not just infiltration. U.S. tech giants set up shop in China and effectively teach critical IP and know-how to do business there. That outcome was shaped by years of policy and business choices. Secure the labs and rebuild the patent system so innovators can actually defend what they create.

Communist Chinese nationals have infiltrated our labs threatening American AI innovation and our national security. I’ve asked @ENERGY to address this problem.

We keep saying speed wins. So, let’s remove the biggest brake on speed: a hostile patent system that encourages IP theft - which, surprise, surprise, often ends up in China. The patent system didn’t degrade in a vacuum; those guardrails were dismantled under pressure from Big Tech lobbying, leaving small inventors and American national security to pay the price.

We should prioritize American values, yet the corporate pursuit of short term profits often undermines them. By transferring critical intellectual property to China, we expose ourselves to long term strategic risks. It is increasingly difficult to uphold our values and counter the Chinese Communist Party’s influence while simultaneously training and equipping them with the technologies that strengthen their supply chains.

We’re not just losing to China. We’re handing them the trophy. When American companies give away our most advanced technologies, the ultimate loser isn’t business - it’s America. Innovation built here is being taken overseas, copied, and used against us. This isn’t competition. It’s surrender.

It’s not just universities. It’s the same playbook everywhere:  Corporations export the know-how, then China beats us with it. America can’t lead if we do not defend our own innovation. China does not let their companies set up shop in the United States to teach us their IP.