All US patent law is federal, as authority over copyright and patents is one of the things explicitly granted to Congress in the Constitution [1]; the District

All US patent law is federal, as authority over copyright and patents is one of the things explicitly granted to Congress in the Constitution [1]; the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the one that tried this case, is a federal court [2]. The Federal Circuit's jurisdiction over patent cases comes from federal law, specifically 28 USC § 1295 [3], so altering it would 'just' be a matter of amending that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_patent_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_patent_law [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Texas#Patent_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...