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The article focuses on the role that intellectual property rights play in high-technology markets and extraterritorial application of U.S. antitrust law involve international comity and sovereignty. It mentions that limited reach of domestic antitrust laws and the recent efforts by antitrust agencies to regulate the enforcement of foreign patents. It also mentions that U.S. Supreme Court decision of F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A. related to domestic antitrust laws to foreign patents.

The article analyses the antitrust law under the sections 1 and 2 of the U.S. Sherman Act and Section 7 of the Clayton Act for the access of the conduct of patent assertion entities (PAE). Topics discussed include the rules made by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for consumer protection under the FTC Act, investigating the PAEs for the violation of the antitrust law, and the rules made for the acquisition of patents by the PAEs.