This proposed legislation, known as the Antitrust Freedom Act of 2026 , seeks to significantly alter the application of federal antitrust laws to individual economic activities. Its primary purpose is to ensure that voluntary economic coordination, cooperation, and agreements among individuals or groups of individuals are not subject to existing antitrust regulations. Specifically, the bill stipulates that the Sherman Act , the Clayton Act , and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act will not be interpreted to prohibit or extend to any such voluntary associations, compacts, contracts, or covenants. This aims to carve out an exemption for individual-level economic arrangements from the purview of these major antitrust statutes, thereby permitting greater freedom in personal economic endeavors.