In a guest post on this Blogsite yesterday, my colleague Michael Volkov, criticized the two district courts which have passed on the question of whether a state owned enterprise (SOE) can be an “instrumentality thereof” under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The two cases were the Lindsey Manufacturing case and the Carson case. Volkov stated, “By deciding these cases using fact specific standards, the courts have failed to clarify this issue by adopting a more focused and simple inquiry. Unfortunately, the courts have now obscured even more the application of the FCPA.” No doubt inspired by my “This Week in the FCPA” partner, Howard Sklar, I will take a contrarian view from Mike.