Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) teamed up with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to introduce bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to protect taxpayer-funded inventions from being manufactured in other countries.

The Invent Here, Make Here Act, if passed, would ensure federally funded technologies will be manufactured in the United States, according to Baldwin’s press release . The bill addresses licensing these inventions to manufacturing companies in foreign countries such as China , an action federal agencies that commercialize federal research often allow despite the legal requirement that the products be made in the U.S.

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“Taxpayer-funded innovations should benefit American workers and industry, not our foreign adversaries,” Vance said. “For far too long, we’ve allowed American breakthroughs to be offshored to nations like China and Russia — this legislation will bring those abuses to an end.”

An explanation of the legislation also mentions North Korea and Iran, each being a “country of concern.” The bill would subject each waiver request for a license application to a review while preventing the waivers from being sent to the four aforementioned “hostile” countries.

“It’s common sense: products developed with American taxpayer dollars should be manufactured by American workers on American soil,” Vance added.

The bill will also require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to coordinate with other federal agencies to encourage and prioritize domestic manufacturing.

“When taxpayer dollars are used to fund innovation, American companies and workers are the ones who should be reaping the benefits,” Baldwin said.

Vance and Baldwin recently collaborated on legislation that would require e-commerce retailers to disclose a product's country of origin to consumers, the Washington Examiner previously reported .

A draft of the Invent Here, Make Here Act can be found here .