BNA INSIGHTS: An Analysis of Economic Espionage Act Prosecutions: What Companies Can Learn From It and What the Government Should Be Doing About It!

The Economic Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1831-91, was enacted 16 years ago to great fanfare and with the stated goal of better protecting critical U.S. corporate information from theft by foreign governments and unscrupulous competitors by criminalizing the theft of trade secrets…