The controversy over pay-for-delay pharma settlements has been simmering for decades, since Congress attempted to balance the needs of brand-name drug manufacturers with the needs of consumers, who want access to cheaper generics, in the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984. Hatch-Waxman established a regulatory framework for generics to bring their products to the market by filing new drug applications with the Food and Drug Administration, then litigating with brand manufacturers over the validity of brand-name patents. But lawmakers were quickly outsmarted by drug companies, which realized they could prolong their monopolies by paying generics to drop litigation over the validity of their patents. According to the Federal Trade Commission, which has spent years fulminating about these so-called reverse payment, or pay-for-delay settlements, the deals? something like $3.5 billion a year.

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