The Software & Information Industry Association is a United States trade association representing software and digital-content companies. It is one of several industry associations — with the Business Software Alliance, CCIA and TechNet — that intervene in federal AI policy through testimony, comment letters and litigation amicus practice. Its president is Chris Mohr.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Trade association |
| Country | United States |
| President | Chris Mohr |
| AI-policy activity | Congressional testimony, joint industry letters, appellate amicus briefs |
Legislative positions
Following the Senate Judiciary Committee's approval of the NO FAKES Act, Mohr urged a House Judiciary panel to amend the bill, offering the association's backing conditioned on changes, in testimony described in accounts published July 3, 2026 (Source: insideaipolicy.com).
SIIA joined BSA, CCIA and TechNet in a March 4, 2026 joint letter to the White House titled "Letter to the President: Advancing American AI Innovation," concerning the administration's dispute with Anthropic and what the associations described as risks to US technology leadership (Source: ccianet.org).
Litigation participation
SIIA appeared as amicus curiae at the merits stage of Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc. in the Ninth Circuit, represented by Tod Cohen and Annie Nguyen of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. Aug. 4, 2026) — Opinion). After the panel vacated the preliminary injunction on August 4, 2026, SIIA filed a 25-page amicus brief on August 28, announced August 31, supporting Amazon's petition for rehearing en banc (Brief of the Software & Information Industry Association as Amicus Curiae Supporting Rehearing En Banc — Amazon v. Perplexity (August 28, 2026); Source: siia.net; insideaipolicy.com).
The brief argues that the panel departed from the circuit's Facebook v. Power Ventures standard for attributing an agent's unauthorized access to the operator that directed it — the authorization question at the center of Amazon v. Perplexity AI — and that it neither credited nor held clearly erroneous the district court's findings on Perplexity's control of the Comet Assistant. It further argues that the opinion can be read to make liability turn on where software executes rather than on what the operator did, and that the panel folded California's CDAFA claim into the narrower federal statute contrary to United States v. Christensen.
In stating its interest, SIIA describes itself as representing nearly 400 firms and says that many of its AI-developer members "already build to the agent identification and permissioning standards emerging across the industry — including the Agentic Commerce Protocol ('ACP')" from OpenAI and Stripe "and the Model Context Protocol ('MCP')" from Anthropic — and that those members "are disadvantaged by Perplexity's evasive conduct" (Brief of the Software & Information Industry Association as Amicus Curiae Supporting Rehearing En Banc — Amazon v. Perplexity (August 28, 2026)). The association's stated position is that excusing the conduct "would not expand access or innovation," because platforms "would impose broader limits on AI use, including against compliant agents."
Relationships
- related: Business Software Alliance (BSA), CCIA — Computer & Communications Industry Association — peer trade associations on the same joint letters
- related: NO FAKES Act (federal, proposed) — conditional support with proposed amendments
- supports: Amazon v. Perplexity AI — amicus in support of Amazon's rehearing petition
- related: Agentic AI, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) — the authorization framework its brief addresses
- related: Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the agent-identification standards its brief names
- contradicts: Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. Aug. 4, 2026) — Opinion