§30104 Improved Investigative and Forensic Resources for Enforcement of Laws Related to Intellectual Property Crimes

Summary

Require the Attorney General, working with the FBI Director, to boost FBI help for cases about stolen intellectual property if money is available. The Attorney General must add at least 10 FBI agents to support the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Each DOJ Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Crime Unit must get at least one more FBI agent beyond any agent it had on October 13, 2008. Each such unit in a U.S. Attorney’s office must have at least two Assistant U.S. Attorneys working on these crimes. The Attorney General must also set up a regular, full training program for FBI agents on investigating and prosecuting these crimes, including forensic training. If money is available, and no later than 180 days after October 13, 2008, the Attorney General, together with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, the FBI, and other agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, must create and start a long-term plan to investigate and prosecute international organized crime groups that steal intellectual property. Congress authorized $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out these actions.