The Defend Trade Secrets Act
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), signed into law in 2016, establishes a federal civil cause of action for trade-secret misappropriation, allowing businesses to take their cases to federal court when their trade secrets — such as proprietary formulas, designs, or business strategies — are stolen or improperly used. This law provides a unified legal framework across states, which previously (and still do) generally had varying trade-secret laws, offering businesses a more consistent way to…