Motive’s customers and Motive’s right to compete protected.

Administrative Law Judge Doris Johnson Hines of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued her determination in the patent infringement investigation brought by Samsara against Motive. The outcome is clear:

  • Motive does not infringe any valid patent claim asserted by Samsara.
  • Eight of the nine patent claims asserted by Samsara are invalid.
  • Samsara failed to prove that it incorporated two of the three patented technologies into its own products.
  • Samsara failed to establish sufficient investment in domestic industry for any of the asserted patents.

Why this matters: Safety and customer choice are at stake.

The determination is a win for the nearly 100,000 customers and more than 1 million drivers who use our solutions every day to operate. Samsara has been using the ITC to stifle competition and limit customer choice. Motive wants customers to have access to independent benchmarks and the solution that works best for their safety programs. Customer choice is what established us as leaders in AI-powered driver safety technology and the determination protects their power to choose. 

The background: A history of lawsuits.

Samsara has a history of litigating customer choice. In 2023, Samsara filed a lawsuit to protest the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) decision not to use Samsara after a competitive bidding process. Samsara protested their loss twice, and delayed the USPS’s ability to implement a telematics solution for years. Samsara lost their protest. You can read the USPS’s final response to Samsara here and the court’s rejection of their second bid protest here.

At the same time that they were losing their USPS case in 2024, Samsara filed suit against Motive and launched a marketing campaign to tell our customers and others who would listen that we would soon be out of business and to switch to Samsara. 

Unfortunately, this use of litigation to limit customer choice felt like a coordinated attack. Omnitracs, which engaged the same law firm as Samsara, had brought similar claims to compete for our customers. We litigated against Omnitracs throughout 2024, and in April 2025, Motive won at trial. A San Francisco jury determined that we had independently developed our technology and did not infringe on Omnitracs’ patents, and the Judge also invalidated several of their patents in the final judgment. You can read about it here. 

How we move forward: Transparency and trust.

The Judge’s determination confirms that we are free to continue to do what we do best: build the most effective safety technology on the market and help our customers make their fleets safer, more productive, and more profitable.

To our customers: Thank you. You’ve stood by us while we defended our right to innovate, operate with integrity, and deliver technology that actually works. This ruling ensures that you’ll continue to have access to the most advanced AI safety tools available — tools designed to keep your drivers safe and your operations strong.

We’re grateful for your trust. And we’re just getting started.

To learn more, visit www.truthandsafety.com.