/>iIn July 2025, the White House released Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan (July 2025), a national policy memorandum outlining the federal government’s strategy to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. The Action Plan highlights AI’s transformative role across science, defense, education, and commerce — while positioning the United States as a global leader in AI innovation, infrastructure, and security. To support clients and stakeholders in understanding the implications of this initiative, Barnes & Thornburg’s Artificial Intelligence practice has prepared a legal and regulatory analysis of the Action Plan.
The AI Action Plan
Structured around three strategic pillars, the Plan outlines a broad federal commitment to:
1. Accelerate AI Innovation – Removing regulatory barriers, promoting open-source development, driving AI adoption across sectors, and ensuring systems reflect American values of free speech and objectivity.
2. Build American AI Infrastructure – Scaling energy capacity, expanding semiconductor manufacturing, and constructing secure data centers to support AI growth.
3. Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security – Strengthening export controls, countering adversarial influence, and aligning technology protection measures with allies.
Key Themes in This Report
Our analysis provides insight into several cross-cutting themes for businesses and legal stakeholders, with a focus on:
Privacy and Security Perspectives – Data governance, cyber-resilience and legal considerations for AI-related privacy frameworks
Intellectual Property Perspectives – IP protection for AI models, datasets and innovations; enforcement against malicious actors
Infrastructure, Education, and Robotics – Regulatory updates on data centers, chip manufacturing, energy requirements and AI workforce development
A Focus on Potential Liability – Synthetic media risks, biosecurity obligations, international AI compliance strategies and consideration of potential liability for AI labs/system users and developers
