A new ByteLaw® article titled "The New Patent Wars - Securing American Innovation by Reforming Intellectual Property Policy for State-Directed Competitors," argues that the United States patent system is currently being exploited by state-directed actors, particularly the People's Republic of China, transforming patents into tools for geostrategic competition. It explains that China's strategy of civil-military fusion allows its companies to accumulate extensive patent portfolios in critical technologies, posing threats like infrastructural disruption and suppression of U.S. innovation. Because existing legal frameworks like the Invention Secrecy Act are inadequate to counter this threat, the article proposes a three-tiered legislative reform that includes pre-grant national security reviews for patents, expansion of government use rights, and the addition of a national security factor to patent infringement remedy decisions. Ultimately, the source advocates for a paradigm shift to a patent system that actively considers the national security implications of patent ownership. The full article is obtainable here: (The New Patent Wars - Securing American Innovation by Reforming Intellectual Property Policy for State-Directed Competitors)