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This paper suggests that the concept of market power under U.S. antitrust law can also be used in balancing the free exercise rights of a corporation or any for-profit business venture against the rights of individuals. Topics covered include development and current reach of corporate free exercise rights, background of U.S. antitrust law, role of market power in antitrust jurisprudence and a compromise approach to the problem of corporate free exercise rights using the market power concept.

The article examines antitrust law in the U.S. Topics discussed include goals of antitrust law such as dispersion of economic and political power; antitrust laws governance on the preservation of domestic control over critical resources, the survival of small businesses, integration of disparate economic systems, and American antitrust jurisprudence.

The article explores the exclusionary or predatory conduct of antitrust law's single firm proscription. Topic discussed include introduction of the Sherman Act aimed to codify common law at the federal level, rules defined as per the antitrust law regarding single-firm conduct, and decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case 'Utah Pie Co. v. Continental Baking Co.' concerning antitrust law and monopolization.