"Parties found to infringe a valid U.S. patent—in the ITC or otherwise—are always at a disadvantage at the bargaining table, and rightly so. Respondents cite no authority to suggest that the monopoly granted by the Patent Clause of the U.S. Constitution should be supplanted so that they can negotiate a better license rate.
To the contrary, Respondents’ continued unlawful importation of infringing goods would continue to harm Complainants’ intellectual property rights and, by extension, the public interest. "