body: Consider two businesses, "Us LLC" and "Them, Inc." which are both in the field of selling widgets to the general public. The production of these widgets fall under a government regulation that mandates they be, for example, made of a particular material.
  
  
  "Them, Inc." is selling widgets well below competitive price points because they make theirs out of a non-compliant but significantly cheaper material. "Us LLC" makes compliant widgets, but cannot compete on this unequal footing. The regulatory agency responsible has ignored requests to enforce the regulation on "Them, Inc.", and will not issue a waiver of the regulation to "Us LLC".
  
  
  Does "Us LLC" have any legal standing to either compel the regulatory agency to enforce the regulation, or to directly compel "Them, Inc." to comply?
  
  
  Would the noncompliance of the competitor, combined with lack of enforcement by the regulator, hold any defensive merit if "Us LLC" were to start using the non-compliant material?
  
  
  
title: Can a private individual force a competitor to cease a illegal practice which gives a competitive advantage?