While in the legislature, Stratton sponsored or co-sponsored numerous criminal justice measures and other legislation designed to reduce taxes and limit the size and scope of state government.

While attorney general, Stratton successfully argued the case of Cotton Petroleum v. State of New Mexico before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Stratton implemented the first memorandum of understanding with AQSIQ in China, where he held the first Sino-US Consumer Product Safety Summit in 2005.

The CPSC Office of International programs went on to implement memorandum of understandings with the largest U.S. trading partners including India, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Taiwan, Korea, Israel as well as others.

During that same time, the CPSC worked on a number of other product issues involving ATVs, upholstered furniture, gasoline generators, and various toys and juvenile products including baby bath seats In 2000, Stratton, along with economist and former economics professor, Harry Messenheimer, founded the Rio Grande Foundation (RGF).

The RGF website states: The Rio Grande Foundation of New Mexico is an independent, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy.

After leaving the CPSC in 2006, Stratton joined the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm, Dykema Gossett, where he practiced until April 2008.

During the course of his career Stratton has made scores of television appearances on news programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC and PBS and their local affiliates.

He has given over one hundred keynote speeches and seminars in English and Spanish in over 11 countries and 35 states, and written articles and publications on legal, legislative, and regulatory issues.