Innovation Race Podcast

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.com For 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.

Jenny Beth Martin sits down to discuss Innovation Race with Director Luke Livingston. They discuss some of the details about what went into the making of Innovation Race, and they reminisce on some of the other films they have worked on together, including Invalidated (prequel to Innovation Race), Border States of America, narrated by actor Nick Searcy, The Determinators, and Tea Party Movie. 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. More information on Innovation Race can be found at www.innovationracemovie.com Innovation Race is now available on SalemNOW.com

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.com Innovation 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.com Innovation Race is now available on SalemNOW

Gordon Chang is an attorney, an author, a regular contributor on major media networks, and one of the leading American voices on all things China. In this episode, Gordon pulls back the curtain on the Chinese Communist Party and exposes some of the major challenges the United States faces with its greatest geo-political foe. Be sure to subscribe and review this podcast. Purchase Gordon Chang’s book The Coming Collapse of China https://amzn.to/3iprS32 More information on Innovation Race can be found at www.innovationracemovie.com Innovation Race is now available on SalemNOW

Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He is an expert on patent law and intellectual property. Mossoff has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. When it comes to intellectual property, when Mossoff speaks, Congress listens. Mossoff was gracious enough to lend his expertise to the films Invalidated and Innovation Race, and now to the Innovation Race Podcast. Be sure to subscribe and review this podcast. Find out more about the film Innovation Race at www.innovationracemovie.com 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 @adammossoff

Gary Lauder is a venture capitalist and the Managing Director of Lauder Partners, LLC., a Silicon-Valley based venture capitalist firm. He has degrees in international relations from Pennsylvania University, economics from the Wharton School, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has invested in over 160 private companies, mostly in the technology or communications industries. In the film Innovation Race, he described the “venture” in venture capitalism as being short for “adventure,” and after spending time with Gary it is clear that he has a passion for the adventures he embarks on every time he helps a start-up business or inventor with their innovative ideas. As an investor, Gary has a unique perspective on the importance of patents and the various improvements that need to be made to protect inventors and harness the American spirit of innovation. Links discussed in this episode: The Roll (sic) of Patents in Corporate America - a presentation by Gary Lauder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLnd6irPIM Eroom’s Law https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/eroom-s-law America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation - by Joshua Kendall https://amzn.to/3iIWAnf In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies - by Thomas G. West https://amzn.to/3Bmzd9K For more information on how to watch Innovation Race, visit https://www.innovationracemovie.com

Brigadier General Robert Spalding, USAF, retired, is the founder and CEO of SEMPRE, a technology company with the mission of protecting and securing our most critical resource - data. Gen. Spalding is the former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Strategic Planning. He has served in senior positions of strategy and diplomacy within the Defense and State Departments. Gen. Spalding has authored two books on the threats the United States faces from China and his expertise is unparalleled. You can purchase Gen. Spalding's books here: War Without Rules: https://amzn.to/3uijoNm Stealth War: https://amzn.to/3gPqW72 For more information on how to watch Innovation Race, visit https://www.innovationracemovie.com

Jackie Deal is the co-founder of the American Academy for Strategic Education (AASE) and the President of the Long Term Strategy Group. Jackie specializes in foreign policy strategy and teaches courses on net assessment, Chinese policy, and political warfare to national security professions. Her work involves assessing the ambitions and weaknesses of foreign rivals to improve US intelligence. Jackie is an important voice as we take a deeper dive on some of the foreign policy implications of the innovation race with China. You can find more information about Jackie at https://www.aase.org For more information on the film Innovation Race visit https://www.innovationracemovie.com Innovation Race will be in select theaters nationwide on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.

Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He is an expert on patent law and intellectual property. Mossoff has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. When it comes to intellectual property, when Mossoff speaks, Congress listens. Mossoff was gracious enough to lend his expertise to the films Invalidated and Innovation Race, and now to the Innovation Race Podcast. Be sure to subscribe and review this podcast. Find out more about the film Innovation Race at https://www.innovationracemovie.com For more information about Professor Mossoff, his qualifications, and his publications please visit https://www.adammossoff.com You can find his tweets on patent history by following him on Twitter at @adammossoff

Frank Gaffney is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the Center for Security Policy and the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. In this episode, Frank reveals the clear and present danger the United States faces in the race with China. Frank Gaffney has spent decades highly engaged in national security policy for the United States of America. He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the Center for Security Policy and the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. While the film Innovation Race only scratches the surface of the national security implications of the innovation race with China, this podcast aims to bring more detail on that front. While Gaffney did not appear in the film, he brings a valuable perspective on the threats America faces with China, specifically the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and how that clear and present danger is reminiscent of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union. Be sure to subscribe and review this podcast. Find out more about the film Innovation Race at https://www.innovationracemovie.com Find out more about Center for Security Policy at https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org Links mentioned in the episode: https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/chinese-state-media-calls-for-peoples-war-as-us-trade-conflict-escalates/ https://ccpatwar.com/

Congressman Thomas Massie joins Jenny Beth Martin to discuss his history as an inventor, from his days as a kid from Kentucky, to his time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to the limited time he gets to spend back home on his farm in rural Kentucky. Massie discusses his latest invention, the Clucks Capacitor, an automated chicken tractor that is self-sufficient and operable with a mobile app that he created. Massie is a leading voice in Congress for the everyday American inventor. He explains the need to reverse some of the devastating consequences of the America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA), including the need to get rid of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the need to restore the patent system to a 'first to invent' system rather than a 'first to file' system. His legislation, Restoring America's Leadership in Innovation Act of 2021 (RALIA), is his solution to the bad consequences of the AIA. Congressman Massie appeared in the film Innovation Race where he demonstrates his Clucks Capacitor from his farm in Kentucky and speaks about what needs to happen to protect American inventors. There is only so much that can be captured in a feature-length documentary, so in this episode Massie takes a deeper dive into the themes from the film. Massie is known for repurposing a battery from a totaled Tesla Model S to power his home - which you can find on YouTube - and for his snarky, fact-based social media posts accompanied with the hashtag #SassyWithMassie. In what is often dubbed the prequel to Innovation Race, the documentary Invalidated: The Shredding of the US Patent System, which also features Massie, was initially inspired by a conversation between Martin and Massie where Massie pointed out that the right to intellectual property was so important to the Founding Fathers that they protected it in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. It wasn't an afterthought. It wasn't in the Bill of Rights. It was in the base constitution. No matter your politics, Congressman Massie is a fascinating and affable intellectual. Enjoy this fascinating conversation. For more information at Innovation Race visit: https://www.innovationracemovie.com For more episodes of the Innovation Race Podcast visit: https://www.innovationracepodcast.com For more information about the Clucks Capacitor visit: https://www.shireware.com

In today’s episode, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Adrian Pelkus, an inventor, entrepreneur, and veteran. The self-proclaimed artificer began inventing at a young age when he created a prosthetic hand and became responsible for over 50 patients at UCLA when he was just a teenager. Adrian has 18 issued patents and has developed over 300 inventions in his 40-plus year career. Adrian explains the struggles and challenges that grassroots inventors face today in the era of the America Invents Act and how that legislation has been detrimental to innovation. Resources: Learn more about Adrian Pelkus at https://inventingwithadrian.com Learn how you can help grassroots inventors at https://usinventor.org Find out more about Innovation Race at https://www.innovationracemovie.com

In today’s episode Jenny Beth Martin speaks with Molly Metz, who is known as the “Queen of the Rope”, as she holds 5-world championships and is the reigning National Champion in the sport of speed rope jumping. She has been involved in the sport for over 35 years, and is a competitor, coach, innovator, and is the only jump-roper to have held not one, but 2 patents for her jump rope technology. She has also ranked in the top 500 fittest women in CrossFit in her age category for many years. Today, Molly spends most of her time traveling the world, conducting her unique jump rope seminars at CrossFit gyms around the world – and most importantly to our conversation fighting the US Patent office to win back her “invalidated” patents. Resources: Check out Molly's jump rope at https://jumpnrope.com Find out more information about Innovation Race at https://innovationracemovie.com Learn how to help inventors at https://usinventor.org Find out more about Molly Metz at https://usinventor.org/mollymetz-thejumpropequeen