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cblr-14240	Feith, Dore	The First "State Sponsor of Mass IP Theft": China, Sovereign Immunity, and Upholding Americans’ Intellectual Property Rights: Dore Feith	2025	50	.pdf	application/pdf	16650	739	53	For the following quarter century, the State Department typically granted foreign states immunity, though not in suits tied to their commercial acts.91 Beijing’s theft violates Americans’ property rights, discourages innovation, and damages the economy and national security of the United States.5 Americans can file civil suits against people who misappropriate their trade secrets and otherwise steal IP, but they cannot sue China’s government because U.S. courts do not have subject-matter jurisdiction over foreign states except in narrow circumstances.6 Congress, however, could amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA,” or “the Act”) to confer jurisdiction on the courts so that Americans can hold the Chinese government, including the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP, or “the Party”) and its organs of state (collectively, “the Party-state” or “Beijing”), accountable for IP theft.	cache/cblr-14240.pdf	txt/cblr-14240.txt