The USA PATRIOT Act is a broad sweeping act that is designed to stop terrorism, domestic or foreign, against the United States and it citizens. The bulk of the USA PATRIOT Act deals with terrorism. One of the major goals for this act was to ease restrictions that were implemented in order to safeguard citizens against abuses by the government. An area where these restrictions were eased is the ability to spy domestically, given permission and warrants by the special court system, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Courts. The easements allow investigators to obtain business and personal records in order to help investigators tracking terrorists. There are also new, stronger crimes to combat terrorism. Some of these existed before but are more clearly defined, had new offenses added to those sections, and stronger penalties. For example, it creates a federal crime to commit terrorist attacks on mass transportations, the use of biological and other weapons, harboring terrorists, and providing material support to terrorist and terrorist groups.