Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.
Article 14 Intentional crime is knowing that one's actions will have harmful consequences to society, and hoping or letting such consequences happen, thus constituting a crime, which is intentional crime. Whoever intentionally commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility.
Article 216 Whoever commits the crime of counterfeiting patents, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.