Even her disability isn't American. The FDA's chief bragging point for decades was that it never approved thalidomide when most of the world was tragically using it as the sedative of choice for pregnant women. The article refers to it as "the leprosy-treating drug thalidomide," but actually its use in leprosy wasn't discovered until after the drug had been banned from general usage. The serendipitous discovery of its benefit against an otherwise untreatable leprosy complication eventually led to its use in several other diseases. It is now FDA approved, albeit under stringent regulations.
Our courts will accept too many foreign cases lik this one and our taxpayers will end up paying the court costs.