1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Innovation Protection Act of 2017 . 2. Definitions In this Act— (1) the term Administrator means the Administrator of the SBA; (2) the term Director means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO; (3) the term SBA means the Small Business Administration; (4) the term small business concern has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632(a) ); (5) the term small business development center means a center described in section 21 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 648 ); and (6) the term USPTO means the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 3. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the USPTO and the SBA are positioned to— (A) build upon several successful intellectual property and training programs aimed at small business concerns; and (B) increase the availability of and the participation in those programs across the United States; and (2) any education and training program administered by the USPTO and the SBA should be scalable so that the program is able to reach more small business concerns. 4. SBA and USPTO partnerships (a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator and the Director shall enter into a partnership agreement under which the Administrator and Director shall— (1) develop high-quality training, including in-person or modular training sessions, for small business concerns relating to— (A) domestic and international protection of intellectual property; and (B) how such protections should be considered in the business plans and growth strategies of the small business concerns