Amends the federal criminal code to exempt the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from disclosure of confidential information violations…

Section 1905 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking Whoever and inserting (a) Restrictions.— Whoever; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

For purposes of determining whether semiconductor chip products are being imported into the United States in violation of section 42 of the Lanham Act or in violation of any of the exclusive rights of the owner of a mask work under chapter 9 of title 17, upon presentation the Secretary of Homeland Security (except in such cases as would compromise an ongoing law enforcement investigation or would compromise national security)—

(A) may, and upon detention shall, share with the holder of the registered mark or the owner of the mask work, as the case may be, information on the semiconductor chip products and their packaging and labels, including unredacted photographs or digital images of such products, packaging, and labels; and

(B) may, at any time, subject to any applicable bonding requirements, supply un­re­dact­ed samples of such products to such holder of the registered mark or owner of the mask work.

Actions by the Secretary of Homeland Security in accordance with paragraph (1) shall not be a violation of subsection (a).

As used in this section—

(1) the term Lanham Act has the meaning given that term in section 2320(e) of this title;

(2) the terms mask work and semiconductor chip product have the meanings given those terms in section 901 of title 17;

(3) the term registered mark has the meaning given that term in section 45 of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. 1127); and

(4) the term unredacted means without removing, revising, or otherwise obscuring any information or markings appearing on a product or its retail packaging.

The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.