Peloton has been hit with a patent infringement lawsuit from a non-practicing entity. The complaint was filed on Friday, May 22, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue long favored by patent plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs are Portus Singapore Pte Ltd and Portus Pty Ltd, a Singapore company and its Australian affiliate. They claim Peloton infringes two patents: U.S. Patent No. 8,914,526, titled “Local and Remote Monitoring Using a Standard Web Browser,” and U.S. Patent No. 9,961,097, titled “System for Remote Access of a User Premises.” Both patents relate to home security and remote monitoring systems.
The infringement claim treats a Peloton Bike, Bike+, Tread, or Tread+ inside a member’s home as a “smart-home device” being remotely monitored and controlled, with the Peloton app and cloud services standing in for the remote-access system described in the patents. In other words, the suit attempts to map patents written for home security setups onto connected fitness equipment.
Portus is open about being a non-practicing entity. The complaint itself states that the company “has never sold a product” and describes itself as “a non-practicing entity, with no products to mark.” Non-practicing entities make money by acquiring patents and pursuing licensing fees and settlements rather than by selling anything based on the patents. These entities are sometimes referred to as “patent trolls.”
Peloton is far from the only company targeted. Portus has filed a wave of nearly identical lawsuits over the same two patents against Amazon, Samsung, LG, and several appliance and HVAC makers, all centered on smart-home control features. The campaign has also reached deeper into the connected fitness space: Portus has separately sued Tonal, the connected strength-training company, as well as iFit, the maker of NordicTrack and ProForm. Both of those fitness suits were filed earlier this year and appear to still be working through the courts.
The cases were all filed by Ramey LLP, a firm that is among the most prolific patent litigation filers in the country, with hundreds of suits filed in recent years on behalf of patent-holding clients.
Several earlier Portus suits over the same patents have quietly wrapped up without a court ever ruling on whether the patents were actually infringed. A case against smart-lock maker August Home was dismissed with prejudice in January 2026 via a joint agreement, with each side covering its own costs and no settlement terms made public. Earlier suits against Amcrest Technologies and Schneider Electric ended the same way, with dismissals that filings suggested followed confidential settlements. The more recent high-profile cases against Amazon and Samsung, filed earlier this year, remain pending. None of the resolved cases produced a public damages award or a ruling on the patents’ validity, which is a common pattern for non-practicing entity campaigns.
Peloton has not publicly commented on the lawsuit. Patent cases like this often take months or years to play out and frequently end in settlements or dismissals rather than trials, so it could be a while before there is any resolution.
What do you make of this lawsuit against Peloton?
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I had a look, interesting – they seem to have been around for many years and they definitely had a solution – looks like they were doing things in a number of different areas like appliance monitoring and managing EV charging, so I’d say this is an inventor-led company rather than one of those troll outfits that just buys up patents to litigate. Their patents look very early and don’t just seem to be home security – they seem to cover any monitoring or control of appliances, security or whatever via the cloud.