While foreign theft of American companies' patents and creative works is a serious issue, the theft of IT is also very serious and can have wide-ranging effects on many American industries. The recent move to use unfair competition laws as an alternative tool to fight this problem presents a new and potentially useful avenue to leveling the playing field between American and foreign competitors. New York companies operating in industries that regularly compete with foreign companies likely to be misappropriating IT would be wise to follow the suits filed by the California attorney general and consider how the complaints could be used to develop claims in their respective industries. With little apparent help on the horizon from federal officials, concerted efforts by business and state attorneys general could prove a strong weapon to claw back some of the billions of dollars in ill-gotten advantage foreign companies are enjoying--a result that would benefit not only New York companies but America and our economy generally in an era of global competition.