The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 () was a 6 title Act of Congress dealing with a wide range of issues, including not only industrial espionage (e.g., the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act), but the insanity defense, matters regarding the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, requirements for presentence investigation reports, and the United States Sentencing Commission reports regarding encryption or scrambling technology, and other technical and minor amendments. Structure of the Act Protection of trade secrets The act makes the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime. Unlike the Espionage Act of 1917 (found at ), the offense involves commercial information, not classified or national defense information. "Trade secrets" are defined in the act consistent with generally accepted legal definitions such as those used in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and state laws based on the UTSA. Specifically it declares: Enforcement Department of Justice policy The United States Department of Justice Criminal Division has issued a prosecution policy relating to enforcement of the Act. In general, it states: Use of EEA The Act can be employed to accomplish several purposes: It can be used to protect a company's valuable intellectual property by prosecuting dishonest competitors who steal a company's trade secrets, but it can also be used against a company that finds itself with trade secrets belonging to a competitor. In United States v. Lange, the EEA was used to protect a victim company that had learned that Lange, a disgruntled former employee, had been offering to sell its secret manufacturing processes to third parties. The company reported Lange to the FBI, and Lange was arrested and subsequently convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. The case was successful in large part because the company undertook reasonable measures to keep its information secret, including: physically securing the trade secrets in question limiting the distribution of documentation describing the trade secret limiting the number of employees with access to the trade secret notifying such employees that they were working with confidential information, and placing warnings on trade secret information providing vendors with only partial information of the trade secret, so that it could not be replicated The EEA has also been used to prosecute a Boeing manager, together with an employee he hired from Lockheed Martin with the offer of a higher salary in return for his