united-states
Can I be sued for acting as the US sales agent for a EU manufactured product that subsequently is accused of breaching a US patent?
<p>If I sell a product in the US as a US resident sales agent on behalf of an EU seller of a product they manufacture in the EU that subsequently breaches a US patent can I be sued?</p>

<p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/271" rel="noreferrer">35 USC 271(a)</a> says</p>
<blockquote>
<p>whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any
patented invention, within the United States or imports into the
United States any patented invention during the term of the patent
therefor, infringes the patent</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Also, (c)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Whoever offers to sell or sells within the United States or imports
into the United States a component of a patented machine, manufacture,
combination or composition, or a material or apparatus for use in
practicing a patented process, constituting a material part of the
invention, knowing the same to be especially made or especially
adapted for use in an infringement of such patent, and not a staple
article or commodity of commerce suitable for substantial
noninfringing use, shall be liable as a contributory infringer.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Both an offer to sell and an actual sale are infringing activities.</p>
