Punitive measures will be imposed on foreign firms that misappropriate American technology and intellectual property. courts and at the World Trade Organization. Victimized private firms will be encouraged to raise claims in both U.S. "Counterfeit goods will be aggressively kept out of the country. The chief offender is China, which has built up its economy in part by piggybacking onto Western technological advances, manipulates its currency to the disadvantage of American exporters, excludes American products from government purchases, subsidizes Chinese companies to give them a commercial advantage, and invents regulations and standards designed to keep out foreign competition." "Some governments have used a variety of unfair means to limit American access to their markets while stealing our designs, patents, brands, know-how, and technology-the 'intellectual property' that drives innovation. "Whether it is a nation-state actively probing our national security networks, a terror organization seeking to obtain destructive cyber capabilities, or a criminal network’s theft of intellectual property, more must be done to deter, defeat, and respond to Though piracy is not mentioned explicitly in the party's platform, intellectual property theft is mentioned a number of times, and China is singled out as the principal offender. On Intellectual Property Theft and Piracy: "We will pursue an effective cybersecurity strategy, supported by the necessary resources, that recognizes the importance of offensive capabilities."
We believe that companies should be free from legal and regulatory barriers that prevent or deter them from voluntarily sharing cyberthreat information with their government partners." "The government collects valuable information about potential threats that can and should be shared with private entities without compromising national security.
"We encourage an immediate update of the law that was drafted a decade ago to improve the security of government information systems." cannot afford to risk the cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor." "The current deterrence framework is overly reliant on the development of defensive capabilities, and has been unsuccessful in dissuading cyber-related aggression. Security companies such as Kaspersky Lab have repeatedly warned that a full-scale Cyber arms race is going on, and the Republican Party believes the United States needs an "active deterrence protocol" which includes increased offensive capabilities. Over the next five days, we will take a look at the platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties to compare how they plan to handle issues of technology and innovation, and see who has the more outwardly tech-friendly platform. In case you haven't already noticed, it's the quadrennial presidential election season in the United States the time when the two dominant political parties state their goals and methods of attaining them, and work to put their chosen party leader into the office of President of the United States.Īt the Republican National Convention this week, the Republican party both nominated Mitt Romney as its candidate for president, and outlined its platform, its "statement of who we are and what we believe."