Robert Spalding: The General

Randy Landreneau is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and now an activist fighting to restore the rights of inventors. As the President of US Inventor, a non-profit organization, Randy represents inventors, writers, and entrepreneurs around the country to advocate for the US Congress to pass laws that will strengthen the US patent system. The main problem stems from The America Invents Act of 2011 that upended some of the revolutionary framework that made the US patent system an engine that sparked exponential growth in American innovation and ultimately propelled America to the leader of the free world. Randy’s battle may seem irrelevant to much of the population, but after hearing this episode you will realize how this battle impacts all Americans.You can find out more about US Inventor by visiting www.usinventor.org.For more information on how to watch Innovation Race, visit www.innovationracemovie.com 

Declan Ganley is an Irish entrepreneur whose focus has been primarily in telecommunications. He is the founder and CEO of the telecom firm Rivada Networks. Declan was a contributor to the film Innovation Race and in this episode he dives deeper into some of the challenges his companies have faced when it comes to protecting intellectual property.For more information about Rivada Networks you can visit www.rivada.comFor more information about Innovation Race, visit innovationracemovie.com.

Josh Malone, is a father of 8, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an inventor. Josh invented Bunch O Balloons, which launched with a massively successful Kickstarter campaign, and would go on to win Toy of the Year. Just when Josh thought he had secured a future for his family, he learned a large corporation had stolen his invention and was selling it under a different name! This led Josh down a path to save his patent. Little did he know that he would ultimately fight to save the entire US patent system.Learn more at www.innovationracemovie.com.For more about Josh's story, watch Invalidated, the prequel to Innovation Race, on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.

Luke Livingston, the Director of Innovation Race, is a filmmaker and videographer with decades of experience. Luke and his wife, Jo Anne, own the Georgia-based Ground Floor Video, where together they have written, directed, and produced several feature-length films. Some of their past works include Invalidated (prequel to Innovation Race), Border States of America, narrated by actor Nick Searcy, Runaway Slave, featuring C.L. Bryant, and The Determinators. Luke is also the primary videographer for the American Tea Party movement and his film Tea Party Movie is archived by the Library of Congress.

The Honorable Paul R. Michel is a former Federal Appeals Court Judge, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, and in 2004 he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. Michel served on the bench for 22 years before “retiring” in 2010 so that he could speak out about the serious damage he was seeing done to the US patent system. For being retired, he is possibly the hardest working person on the issue of intellectual property protection and he has been named one of the 50 most influential leaders in intellectual property law.More information on Innovation Race can be found at www.innovationracemovie.comInnovation Race is now available on SalemNOW.com 

The Honorable F. Scott Kieff is a former Commissioner of the US International Trade Commission, where he served from October 2013 to June 2017. Scott has served as an advisor to high-level government offices during the Bush, Obama, and Trump Presidential Administrations on national security and economics. Scott is an author, an attorney, and currently the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School. Scott is an expert in international trade and business, intellectual property, and much more.For more information and for all of Scott’s credentials, visit https://kieffstrategies.com/team/f-scott-kieff/More information on Innovation Race can be found at www.innovationracemovie.comInnovation Race is now available on SalemNOW

Be sure to subscribe and review this podcast.Purchase Gordon Chang’s book The Coming Collapse of China https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-China-Gordon-Chang/dp/0812977564/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CSDIQ9XOBHST&keywords=gordon+chang+book&qid=1673403162&sprefix=gordon+chang+book%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-2More information on Innovation Race can be found at www.innovationracemovie.com.Innovation Race is now available on SalemNOW

For more information about Professor Mossoff, his qualifications, and his publications please visit www.adammossoff.com.You can find his tweets on patent history by following him on Twitter at @adammossoffFor more information on Innovation Race, visit www.innovationracemovie.com

Links discussed in this episode:The Roll (sic) of Patents in Corporate America - a presentation by Gary Lauderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLnd6irPIMEroom’s Lawhttps://www.science.org/content/blog-post/eroom-s-lawAmerica’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation - by Joshua Kendallhttps://amzn.to/3iIWAnfIn the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies - by Thomas G. Westhttps://amzn.to/3Bmzd9K

You can purchase Gen. Spalding's books here:War Without Rules https://amzn.to/3uijoNmStealth War https://amzn.to/3gPqW72For more information on how to watch Innovation Race, visit www.innovationracemovie.com