His comments arrive after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a study on Wednesday indicating that industries depending on IP rights account for more than $5 trillion of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The country's total GDP is about $14.6 trillion.
I'm sure if you fumble around the arithmetics enough, and include anyone who produces or depends on anything that could fit under the increasingly vague label of "IP" (this company has a movie night every month, they depend on IP!), you can probably even boost that made-up number to 75% or 90% of GDP!