In a significant development, the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy is poised to influence various areas of law, including patent fraud. The ruling, while directly addressing the SEC’s enforcement authority, raises essential questions about the role of juries in determining allegations of inequitable conduct. According to attorneys at Cadwalader, regardless of whether the decision affects the direction of inequitable conduct—which involves proving that a patentee made material misstatements or omissions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office—the verdict opens the door for defendants to argue more substantively for jury trials than ever before.