Congress takes aim at familiar foil in US economic espionage prosecutions
By Melissa Ritti ( August 28, 2026, 14:45 GMT | Comment) -- The US Department of Justice has made economic espionage a centerpiece of its effort to protect critical technologies from foreign adversaries. But an analysis by MLex of nearly three decades of prosecutions shows the difficulty of establishing the elements that elevate criminal trade secret theft to a matter of national security.Congress is mulling changes to language in the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996 that has frustrated the US Department of Justice, just as a California federal judge throws out seven more convictions under the statute....
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