Make the patent office a performance-based organization
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 21, p. 664.
Written by Thomas F. Gilman.
Make the patent office a performance-based organization
The document says “should”Who acts: President, OMBHow: internal managementp. 664 in the PDF
What the document says
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should be made into a performance-based organization”
The chapter lists this among the structural changes to consider, and offers as an alternative that the patent office be consolidated with another agency. A performance-based organization is a federal body given management flexibility in exchange for measurable performance commitments.
What the document actually says
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should be made into a performance-based organization”
That sentence, in plain words
The patent office should be run against set targets.
What this is about
The patent office grants patents and trademarks. The book says it should be run more like a business. It would be judged on results.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing in the candidate set concerns the Patent and Trademark Office. EO 14402 is the nearest by wording, setting efficiency and performance rules for federal contracting, which is a different subject from an agency's organizational status. No indexed action makes the patent office a performance-based organization or consolidates it with another agency. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 664. https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
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“Make the patent office a performance-based organization,” Project 2025, chapter 21, p. 664. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch21-uspto-performance-based/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).
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