Ask your representatives to protect the right to build.

Subject: Protect employees' right to build independent work Dear Representative or Senator, I live in my state, and I am asking you to support legislation protecting employees' right to create independent work on their own time. Workers should be able to build apps, software tools, games, creative projects, research, open-source contributions, and small businesses when they are not using employer trade secrets, confidential information, company equipment, private customer data, or paid working time. Some employment agreements and company policies are written so broadly that workers become afraid to publish anything under their own name. That does not just hurt workers. It prevents useful tools, new companies, and local innovation from ever reaching the public. Please support a Right to Build law that creates a clear safe harbor for independent work, prevents overbroad invention-assignment and conflict policies, protects trade secrets, and stops retaliation against workers who build lawful personal projects. A job should pay for assigned work. It should not become a claim on every future idea a person creates. Sincerely, [Your Name] [City, State]

Subject: Please support the Right to Build Dear Representative or Senator, I am a constituent, and I am asking you to support employee invention and independent-work protections. Workers should own apps, tools, creative work, and businesses they build on their own time, with their own resources, without using employer secrets or assigned work. Companies should be able to protect trade secrets, confidential information, customer data, and paid work product. But they should not be able to claim broad ownership over unrelated personal projects or stop workers from publishing lawful independent work. Please support a Right to Build law that creates a clear safe harbor for independent work and prevents overbroad invention-assignment and conflict-of-interest policies. Sincerely, [Your Name]

Hi, my name is [Name], and I live in [City]. I am calling to ask my representative to support employee Right to Build protections. Workers should be able to create apps, tools, software, games, open-source work, and small businesses on their own time, using their own resources, as long as they do not use company secrets, company equipment, customer data, or paid work time. I support strong trade-secret protections, but I do not think companies should be able to claim every unrelated idea a person builds outside work. Please ask the office to look into a Right to Build bill or employee invention protection bill. Thank you.