The lawless world of international espionage, until recently the preserve of the most secretive organs of government, has come to affect the everyday commercial affairs of businesses around the world, which are woefully unprepared to deal with it. Economic espionage is not itself a new phenomenon. Chinese silkworms legendarily made their way to India in a clandestine transaction. In 1812, Francis Cabot Lowell traveled to Britain, where he visited and managed to memorize and steal the secret workings of the Cartwright loom.¹ More recently, starting no later than 1980, Hitachi and other Japanese companies repeatedly launched espionage attacks against...