Delighted to sit down with Professor Arti Rai for Penn State Dickinson Law #ProfilesinLeadership fireside chat.

Professor Rai serves as the Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law and Faculty Director, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke University School of Law. Professor Rai is an internationally recognized expert in intellectual property (IP) law, innovation policy, administrative law, and health law.

From March to December 2021, Professor Rai served as Senior Advisor on innovation law and policy issues to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of General Counsel. She also regularly advises other federal and state agencies as well as Congress on these issues. She is a member of multiple distinguished councils, including the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’ Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, the Polaris Advisory Council to the Government Accountability Office, and the The American Law Institute. She has also served as a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and on numerous National Academies committees.

From 2009-2010, Professor Rai headed the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that capacity, she led policy analysis of the patent reform legislation that ultimately became the America Invents Act and worked to establish the USPTO’s Office of the Chief Economist. Prior to entering academia, Professor Rai clerked in the Northern District of California and was a litigator at Jenner & Block and the U.S. Department of Justice.

1:51:– IP and #national security.

6:13:– Connecting policymakers and scientists.

8:26:– Is the US retreating from global leadership in technological investments?

10:19:– The axis of protection and commercialization.

13:24:– Are universities naïve when it comes to system integrity and security?

14:57:– Leadership lessons from Professor Rai’s formative years.

18:03:– Finding common ground.

19:22:– Balancing being decisive and open-minded.

21:33:– Leadership and parenthood.

22:42:– Academics as partners.

26:24:– Leadership in legal reform: The America Invents Act.

33:10:– Addressing objections.

26:24:– Leadership in legal reform: The America Invents Act.

36:31:– Academics as advisors: USPTO, Department of Commerce, and Congress.

39:01:– Should negotiators ‘overshoot’ to maximize their wins?

40:29:– Adapting your message to your audience.

42:10:– What leadership looks like in the presidential transition team.

47:28:– Hiring when there is no precedent.

49:44:– Can we trust the Supreme Court’s leadership in patent law post-Amgen?

53:52:– Mentors and mentees.

56:31:– 2023 and beyond.