WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Entrepreneur Bryan Pate, a self-described “risk taker” and “optimist,” admits that few things scare him, but count proposed changes to the nation’s patent system among them.

Pate, a former Marine officer and now CEO of ElliptiGO Inc. — named by Fast Company Magazine as the sixth most innovative fitness company in the world, behind Nike and Zumba and ahead of CrossFit — told federal lawmakers Wednesday that he has spent a “considerable” amount of time trying to understand how the provisions contained in the House’s Innovation Act will impact his business.