Real bill currently in Congress c/o S/119/5024
Stop PRC Economic Espionage Act of 2026
Latest action (2026-07-16): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
What should pass
“AI Consensus Solution”
Economic Espionage Adversarial Entity Designation Act of 2025
To simplify the prosecution of economic espionage under 18 U.S.C. § 1831 by automatically treating any entity that is domiciled in a foreign adversary country as a 'foreign instrumentality' of that country, eliminating the need to prove a direct government connection in each case.
Bipartisan rationale: Democratic priorities: preserves due process by allowing a rebuttable presumption and judicial review of designations, preventing overbroad criminal liability. Requires annual reporting to Congress for transparency. Republican priorities: strengthens national security by making it easier to prosecute economic espionage from adversary countries without requiring direct proof of government control in every case; provides a clear statutory tool for prosecutors. The balance of a rebuttable presumption and designation authority satisfies both the rule-of-law concerns of Democrats and the enforcement needs of Republicans.
Vote-count path: ~260 House votes: 180 Democratic centrists + 80 Republicans from national security and oversight caucuses; ~63 Senate votes: 47 Democrats + 16 Republicans from the Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees.