the guest this week is representative bennati goodlatte republican of virginia. he's chairman of the subcommittee on intellectual property and the internet as well as the co-chairman of the commercial internet caucus. joining us in our conversation, gautham nagesh of "the hill" is bitter. next topic, mr. nagesh. >> bring that intellectual property, you mentioned you felt like your committee was in place legislation is often written. so are you indicating that you or someone on your committee will be taking the lead on intellectual property or patent reform going into the next session? >> you that. this is in the chairman of the full committee lamar smith of texas has been working on the patent reform for many years, as have i., and he has asked me with being very fast out of the gate on the patent reform. in fact, i left a patent reform hearing to come over and be with you right now. fortunately i was able to get my portion done and someone else, the vice chairman of the committee, took over to recognize many other members who were there. lots of interesting thin