The 10th Anniversary of the False Claims Act Guide 2026 – Year in review and looking ahead comes at a pivotal moment for False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement. The past year brought significant enforcement momentum alongside growing judicial uncertainty – creating a more complex and less predictable risk environment for companies in highly regulated industries.
In this year's Guide, we reflect on a year of shifting enforcement priorities and discuss how the current Administration is harnessing the power of the FCA to target Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); gender-affirming care; cyberfraud; and trade. State attorneys general are also playing a greater role in enforcing state FCAs in both novel and more traditional ways.
Preview this year's articles below and read the full Guide here.
2026 brings enforcement momentum and judicial uncertainty. With the Department of Justice (DOJ) pushing into novel enforcement areas and courts wrestling with core legal doctrines, the FCA stands at a defining inflection point.
“The FCA today bears little resemblance to the law President Lincoln signed 154 years ago to stop con artists from selling the U.S. Army gun powder barrels filled with sawdust,” we opined in the opening paragraph of False Claims Act: A Year in Review 2016 – the first edition of this Guide. Ten years later, the divide between Lincoln's Law and the modern FCA has grown even more pronounced. Read more…
The push to enact a state False Claims Act in Pennsylvania — the most populous U.S. jurisdiction without one — is reigniting debate over the value of embedding the powerful anti-fraud statute in......