Senators Want to Make DOJ Reveal Its Plans to Counter Chinese IP Theft

New bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday in the Senate would direct the Justice Department to publicize information about its efforts to counter Chinese intellectual-property theft, National Review has exclusively learned.

The measure, authored by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) and Gary Peters (D., Mich.), mandates that the attorney general compile a report detailing the department’s operations against Chinese IP theft and “threats from non-traditional collectors” at research labs, universities, and defense facilities, in addition to the resources that it is deploying against “national security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.”