Strategy Notes
This CP argues that the most important factor in beating China in innovation/innovating in general is not marginal improvements to our patent system, but rather increasing the number of highly skilled immigrants in the US. The CP tests the “strengthen its protection of… intellectual property rights” part of the resolution and competes off the net benefits to that.
While this is limited to the patent section of the topic, I feel that the CP is fairly good at screening out advantages without very specific evidence about patent reform.
It’s worth noting that there is debate over whether or not recent developments in patent law are more important to any industry (specifically the biotech industry), than anything else. This means that in order to win the solvency debate, it’s worth debating the case at the same time as you push on the CP.
Nevertheless, building a narrative backed by evidence that skilled immigrants are overwhelmingly intelligent risk takers that innovate across a broad spectrum of sectors is something I think a reasonably trained 2N could do.
Something that is worth looking into is using different planks to solve other planks. For example, reading an AI solvency card on a biotech aff, and then reading a card that says that AI will revolutionize the biotech industry.
The net benefits are the camp DAs. However, I think that there is enough evidence in the immigration literature that will allow a clever 2N to make the net-benefit be whatever they need it to be, whether that be Politics or Inflation.
The net benefit card might be too strong and may prove that the permutation is better than the CP alone. Be careful in card selection and narrative building.
Something that is worth looking into is reading the ban IP/patents bad CP on this CP as a plank, and then strategically kicking and spinning as needed based on the 2AC coverage.