EXCLUDES EEZ---Domestic patent law is not applicable outside the U.S. and its territories.
Hanna 14 [Matthew T. Hanna (J.D. Candidate, Case Western Reserve University School of Law), 2014, “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A ‘Noman’s Land’ For United States Patent Law,” https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=jolti, accessed 5-24-2024] // enjen
[A]s the EEZ is outside of the territorial United States, and Congress has limited the reach of U.S. patent law to the United States and its territories, infringing activity would not be actionable under U.S. patent law. Even though U.S. jurisdiction has been extended to the EEZ for some, but not all activities, this begs the question of whether it takes U.S. patent law—which territorially limited—along with it. Congress could extend the reach of U.S. patent law to encompass marine scientific research occurring in the EEZ, as countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom have done.97