The Harvard Letter: A Wake-Up Call In August 2025, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent Harvard University a letter that landed like a thunderclap across the tech-transfer community. Invoking the Bayh-Dole Act’s march-in provisions, the government demanded a detailed accounting of Harvard’s federally funded patents: how they were disclosed, whether title was properly elected, who they were licensed to, and whether those licensees are manufacturing in the United States. The