; and (B) failure to discipline all individuals named in the settlement agreement. (13) On March 13, 2018, the Bureau of Industry and Security notified ZTE Corporation that the agency would activate a conditionally suspended denial order, due to the determination by the agency that ZTE Corporation had continuously made false statements to the United States Government. (14) On June 7, 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that ZTE Corporation— (A) agreed to additional penalties and compliance measures which would supplant a prior order of the Bureau; and (B) would be removed from the Department of Commerce’s Denied Persons List, a list of individuals and entities that have been denied export privileges. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) ZTE Corporation poses a significant risk to the economy and national security of the United States; and (2) ZTE Corporation engages and will continue to engage in the theft of intellectual property to the detriment of businesses in the United States. 4. Injunction Section 283 of title 35, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking The several courts and inserting the following: (a) In general The several courts ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (b) Special rule (1) Preliminary injunction in certain cases Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a covered entity is a party to a civil action for patent infringement brought under this title, an opposing party, if seeking a preliminary injunction against such covered entity, need not demonstrate that irreparable harm would result from the failure to grant such injunction. (2) Covered entity defined In this subsection, the term covered entity means an entity (or subsidiary or affiliate thereof) that— (A) is providing or producing telecommunications, software, or electronics equipment; (B) has a headquarters or a principal place of business located in a region administered or governed by the People’s Republic of China (excluding Taiwan)