Durbin Questions Witnesses During Judiciary Subcommittee On Intellectual Property Hearing On Foreign Threats To U.S. Innovation & Economy

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"The INFORM [Consumers] Act was the result of a conversation I had ten years ago with Home Depot who said "they are selling our own home drills… on the internet in volume. They are either stolen or counterfeit…' Well, you'd think if they were stolen or counterfeit, the vendor would like to know that too. They didn't want to hear anything about it and they refused to identify the source of that drill being sold on the internet. It took us ten years to create a law, which we finally passed in December, which moves us in the right direction. [Senator] Bill Cassidy was my cosponsor on it. But it is an indication of what we have faced in the past."

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