Company Profile: Brother Industries (U.S.A.), Inc.
Company overview. Brother Industries (U.S.A.), Inc. (commonly "Brother USA," BIUS) is the U.S. manufacturing and distribution arm of Japan's Brother Industries, Ltd. It is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with operations at a 1.5 million-square-foot facility in nearby Bartlett, Tennessee. Incorporated in 1986, BIUS is an indirect subsidiary of publicly traded Brother Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange; ADR: BRTHY), which was founded in 1908 in Nagoya and reported worldwide sales exceeding $6 billion with roughly 40,000 employees (market cap ~$4.5 billion as of early 2026). Dun & Bradstreet lists BIUS at about 1,200 employees and ~$229 million in annual revenue, though directory estimates vary.
Products / operations. BIUS is a manufacturing company, not a shell. Federal Trade Zone records show it originally produced typewriters and word processors in Bartlett, later expanding to postage franking machines, electronic business equipment, and toner-cartridge manufacturing/refurbishing. Today the Bartlett plant assembles Brother Gearmotor gearmotors and reducers for food-and-beverage, packaging, and material-handling customers, and serves as a major distribution hub for the Brother group's printers, all-in-ones, scanners, and labeling products sold in the U.S.
Patent-litigation posture. BIUS is an operating company on the defensive: it has 1 tracked case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. The sole tracked suit is a patent-infringement action brought by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., a non-practicing entity (Stanford's NPE Litigation Database classifies Flexiworld as a "failed startup" patent asserter; RPX labels it an NPE). The case was filed in the Western District of Tennessee (Memphis) — a venue tied to Brother's own Bartlett facility, not a plaintiff-friendly forum like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Brother Industries (U.S.A.), Inc. (2:22-cv-02250, filed April 2022) was one of four coordinated Flexiworld actions against Brother entities asserting patents on wireless and driverless network printing. The cases closed by consent judgment in March 2023; settlement terms were not disclosed.