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====Discovery Stay====
"Establishes procedures to stay discovery pending a preliminary motion, subject to exceptions for: (1) motions to sever, drop a party, dismiss, or transfer; (2) actions in which a patentee is granted a preliminary injunction to prevent competitive harm; (3) consent of the parties; or (4) certain drug and biological product applications."[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr9/summary]
===Demand Letters===
“The bill precludes a plaintiff from relying on pre-suit demand letters to establish willful infringement if the letters do not specify the asserted patent, the accused product, the plaintiff’s ultimate parent entity, and the grounds for the alleged infringement” [http://www.mofo.com/~/media/Files/ClientAlert/2015/05/150507ProposedPatentReformLegislation.pdf]
===Venue===
Amends the federal judicial code to restrict the venues where patent actions may be brought to judicial districts where:
the defendant has its principal place of business or is incorporated, has committed an act of infringement and has a regular and established physical facility that gives rise to the act of infringement, or has agreed or consented to be sued in the instant action; an inventor named on the patent conducted research or development; or a party has a regular and established physical facility and has managed significant research and development for the invention claimed in the patent, has manufactured a tangible product alleged to embody that invention, or has implemented a manufacturing process for a tangible good in which the process is alleged to embody the invention.[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr9/summary]
