The AIPLA has now offered its legislative proposal for rewriting 35 U.S.C. § 101 that is quite close to that offered by the IPO:
Inventions Patentable
(a) Eligible Subject Matter.—Whoever invents or discovers any
new anduseful process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or any useful improvement thereof,may obtainshall be entitled to a patent therefor, subject only to the conditions and requirementsofset forth in this title.(b) Sole Exceptions to Subject Matter Eligibility.—A claimed invention is ineligible under subsection (a) only if the claimed invention as a whole exists in nature independent of and prior to any human activity, or can be performed solely in the human mind.
(c) Sole Eligibility Standard.—The eligibility of a claimed invention under subsections (a) and (b) shall be determined without regard to the requirements or conditions of sections 102, 103, and 112 of this title, the manner in which the claimed invention was made or discovered, or whether the claimed invention includes an inventive concept.
AIPLA statement. The AIPLA proposal is strikingly similar to that of the IPO’s (although not acknowledged by the AIPLA statement).
[DOCX File of Table: Comparing101Proposals]