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The article discusses various reasons why the U.S. Congress reportedly needs to revise the nation's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's (FCPA's) mens rea guidelines in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the patent infringement case Global-Tech Appliances Inc. v. SEB which deals with a willful blindness standard legal standard. Foreign bribery allegations involving the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. retail firm are mentioned, along with corporate corruption claims and American criminal law.

The article discusses the decision of the U. S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in case Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. v. W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. that changed the willful patent infringement landscape. Topics discussed include the concept of patents, patent infringement, and various types of patent damages, practical implications of the Bard case on litigants as well as the court system, and another Federal Circuit case Underwater Devices Inc. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc.

The article focuses on the induced patent infringement and the Willful blindness law. Topics discussed include secondary patent infringement, willful blindness doctrine which is accepted by all Circuit Court of Appeals, and failure to discover the existence of a competitor's patent. It mentions the U.S. Supreme Court case Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB SA which concluded that the induced acts will cause patent infringement.

The article offers the author's insights on the fault elements of indirect patent infringement in an objective point of view. The author discussed the foundational concepts of such a fault including components of a legal claim, the mental culpability in the context of tort, and alternative fault approaches. He presents a description of the fault components in willful and indirect infringements, and explicates how their historical context formed the view of such components as involving an investigation on the accused party's mental condition. He claims that the conventional view of fault is wrong, and states that mental state ideas in tort can be transferred into patent law. He suggests an alternative means of viewing fault in patent infringement that is identical to objective recklessness.