The Patent Reform Act was introduced to the 110^th United States Congress in April of the year 2007 with the goal of making American patent law more similar to worldwide patent laws. The Patent Reform Act of 2007 is loosely based on the previous Patent Reform Act of 2005 that was left not voted on by the 109^th U.S. Congress. Many of the proposals written in the Act are direct results of reports filed by both the Federal Trade Commission and the National Academy of Sciences after studies of U.S. patent law were completed in 2003 and 2004 respectively. The House of Representatives passed their version of the bill (H.R. 1908) on September 7, 2007, however the Senate version is still under consideration. Most recently, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary ordered a report on the bill, which was then issued on January 24, 2008 under the title S. Rpt. 110-259.