(formerly titled The Forgotten Half of the Patent Clause; the content is virtually unchanged)
It is finished. Five hundred and eighty-six pages, more than ninety Supreme Court cases surveyed, a foreword by Gord Magill. What it does not yet have is a printing.
A publisher decides that by counting readers, so this page counts them. Your name and email are the whole ask, and the count is the only thing it is used for.
One question does more work than the rest. The book identifies nineteen groups with standing to carry this into federal court, and the last box lets you name the one you want filing suit. Choosing a group says you have been kept from buying remanufactured goods you had a right to buy. If none of them is you, say that instead — the count still matters.
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Everything below is free and online. The argument does not ask to be taken on trust.
The opening chapter in full. Start here if you want the argument in the author’s own words.
What the book argues, compressed to a few pages.
The whole argument on one page, then in three pictures: who is blocked — nineteen groups of Americans; what is blocked; and the remedy, which has historical roots. The posters are free to print — one displayed beside the book on a shelf sells more of it than the spine can.
Author of End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers.
“CHAPTER 14: How Prohibited Expired Patents Double Your Grocery Bill” is reprinted in full with extra bonus material.
Front cover, spine and back cover of the printed edition.
An open-book examination: the clause, the cases, and the question put to you directly.
Why the people who move a field are so often standing outside it.
Tools that draft and address the letter for you.
Every endnote and source, online, each with a live link.
One page, if you want to hand the argument to someone else. Two versions: for truckers · for everyone else.
How the author uses AI, why publishers’ AI policies, sound in general, should allow smart exceptions, and how a reader can tell AI slop from something exceptional.
The book grew out of forty articles on the Patent Clause published on X. This PDF collects more than 250 public replies to them, from working people, lawyers, and journalists, under their own names and handles.
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