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First enacted in 1979, and the basis of all modern US Trade Secret legal regulations, including the establishment of the DTSA, in August 2026 the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee’s will meet to discuss potential updates to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA). Originally drafted to resolve inconsistencies in the treatment of trade secrets across state lines, there has since been debate as to whether the act still meets its original intentions. Proposed reforms aim to address this through key aspects of the statute, including reasonable measures, extraterritorial reach, damages, and the interaction between the UTSA and DTSA. This session will review recent changes to the UTSA, discuss ensuing strategy, and consider the effect on the DTSA, and how it may be adapted in response.

• How UTSA jurisprudence has evolved since its last amendment in 1985, including divergent state court approaches to reasonable measures, trade secret identification, and the "reasonable under the circumstances" standard.
• Concerns around inconsistencies in state-by-state adoption of the UTSA and whether it still achieves the uniformity it was designed to deliver.
• How courts are addressing the UTSA's limited extraterritorial reach, and the growing trend toward hybrid state-federal (UTSA-DTSA) filings to extend jurisdictional coverage.
• Review the Uniform Law Commission's Drafting Committee's proposed updates to the UTSA and consider how any resulting changes may require corresponding adaptation of the DTSA.