Innovation Files Blog

The Trump administration’s Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs will needlessly raise drug costs, harm U.S. patients, and undermine both domestic manufacturing and global biopharmaceutical innovation, while better policy options exist to strengthen the industry without these damaging side effects.

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure—particularly health care—are escalating, and Congress should pass the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act and expand similar sector-specific cybersecurity programs across all critical infrastructure sectors to provide tailored funding, guidance, and support.

MC14 exposed the WTO’s deepening dysfunction on digital trade and reform, underscoring why the United States needs a more strategic approach to global trade.

The conflict in the Middle East, which has blocked shipments through the Strait of Hormuz and led to the destruction of energy infrastructure throughout the region, has increased the cost of commodities such as oil, gas, and fertilizer. This price shock has affected the entire world, raising the cost of food, energy, and transportation.

The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act combines AI regulation with children’s online safety legislation in a single bill, creating overbroad, ill-suited policies that increase compliance burdens and ultimately weaken both innovation and effective protection of minors. These issues should be addressed separately with targeted approaches.

A report estimates that in the 149 American counties that had semiconductor activity prior to the passage of the U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act (USICA), the precursor bill to the CHIPS Act, employment increased by 110 jobs per county, equivalent to a 12.7 percent increase in employment.

As Korea’s labor debate moves into digital policy, unions risk harming workers in the next generation of industries by prioritizing protections for existing jobs over preparing workers for technological transition.

Chairman Carr is refining his legal case for regulating broadcast content through license renewals, but even this more sophisticated approach runs headlong into serious First Amendment problems.

A study of a 2010s expansion of high-speed broadband across Turkey found that that access to high-speed Internet increased formal employment and wages, with the greatest effects concentrated in telework-possible positions and among women.

The pharmaceutical and medicine industry has seen its productivity decline by 2.4 percent annually between 2014 and 2024, one of the worst performances among U.S. manufacturing industries.