High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (Pub.L. 104-294, 110 Stat. 3488, enacted October 11, 1996; H.R. 3723) 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, 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.