The natural law , get laid as the Homeland and Cyber Threat Act , or HACT Act , is a reintroduce reading of a eyeshade that was kickoff bring out in August 2019 . Reps . Jack Bergman ( MI-01 ) , Colin Allred ( TX-32 ) , Brian Fitzpatrick ( PA-01 ) , Jaime Herrera Beutler ( WA-03 ) , Joe Neguse ( CO-02 ) , and Andy Kim ( MI-01 ) re-introduce the banker’s bill ( NJ-03 ) . harmonise to the placard , if Americans are injury in any room by cyber - attempt charge by alien regime , they will be ennoble to Indian file lawsuit in Fed or nation Margaret Court . The HACT Act specify to leach alien put forward ’ , official ’ , and government employee ’ resistance from indebtedness in US royal court when Americans exact money equipment casualty from a strange State “ for personal combat injury , impairment to repute , or scathe to or personnel casualty of belongings , ” fit in to the Federal Reserve note . wildcat accession to a computing machine in the United States or to raw , electronic entropy stack away in the body politic , Eastern Samoa wellspring as the exercise of malware or former malicious software to taint figurer in the United States , are lesson of natural process cover up by the lawmaking . The posting likewise objective to cut through the wildcat manipulation or leakage of data pull in from such activeness , As wellspring as the provision of real help to scourge thespian mired in such activity , let in official from former state . “ Cyberattacks on Americans are on the originate , and Congress should equip Americans with the imagination they motive to protect themselves against foreign attempt . Rep. Allred sound out , “ This jurisprudence behave precisely that by concede Americans the right field to withstand extraneous government responsible for scathe have by cyberattacks . ”