I wish Fauci’s stock response had a little more meat on it. “Senator, while I would prefer to participate fulsomely in today’s hearing, I have no confidence it is being conducted in good faith and cannot predict the ways in which my testimony will be twisted for vindictive prosecution. Therefore…”
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![This case requires us to apply these familiar pleading standards to the third element of an induced-infringement claim: that the inducer took “active steps . . . to encourage
direct infringement.” Grokster, 545 U. S., at 936 (internal quotation marks omitted). Our case law defining “active steps” thus governs the boundaries of a plausible induced- infringement claim. Most fundamentally, “inducement must involve the taking of affirmative,” as opposed to passive, “steps to bring about the desired result” of patent infringement. Global-Tech., 563 U. S., at 760; see also Grokster, 545 U. S., at 935 (requiring “statements or actions
directed to promoting infringement”); Cox Communications, 607 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 9) (citing lack of “evidence of express promotion [or] marketing” as a reason for no liability (internal quotation marks omitted)). To avoid “trenching on regular commerce,” “ordinary acts incident to
product distribution” are insufficient to support liability. Grokster, 545 U. S., at 937.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6onz2tw3s6qhsnp5las5w7au/bafkreif2ocyq7ntnxn4wopbjvapuwf3bvqdmtfsxrb3emdrfwwde3pi5xy)
