November 4, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in SRI Int’l, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., 14 F.4th 1323, 1328-30 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 28, 2021), that willful infringement of a patent only requires deliberate or intentional infringement, not the type of egregious conduct required under Halo Elecs., Inc. v. Pulse Elecs., Inc., 579 U.S. 93 (2016), for enhanced damages.