Here are some pertinent facts. Rep. Massie did not write this bill. No member of Rep. Massie's staff wrote this bill. The bag-man (lobbyist) who is compensating

Here are some pertinent facts. Rep. Massie did not write this bill. No member of Rep. Massie's staff wrote this bill. The bag-man (lobbyist) who is compensating Rep. Massie for introducing this bill also did not write it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if neither Rep. Massie nor any of his staff have even read the actual bill, rather than the executive summary. So who did write the bill then? A reasonable assumption is that it is some party who stands to benefit greatly, probably to the tune of billions of dollars, that had their staff attorneys write up the proposed bill. Our entire legislative system has, over time, been warped to maximally obscure the identities and, to a lesser extent the motivations, of the parties that actually write the laws. All that being said, your surmise that someone with an electrical and mechanical engineering background would see patents through that lens is plausible, but sadly probably irrelevant. The above is true for all legislation in the modern day USA. Virtually no "legislator" has actually legislated in decades at the very least. Occasionally a member of congress will have their staff write up some bill for political purposes, but nobody takes them seriously, not even the members in question.