Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Patterson is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. The population was 11,606 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area. Patterson is known as the "Apricot Capital of the World".