Training-data IP liability is now a quantifiable balance-sheet cost for AI vendors, and vendors unable to document clean training-data provenance face incremental procurement exclusion risk in enterprise and government channels.

At least two enterprise or government procurement RFPs within 12 months include mandatory training-data lineage documentation as a pass/fail vendor-screening criterion, or at least one additional settlement exceeding $500M is reached within 18 months of the $1.5B ruling.