He served as a law clerk to Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1997 to 1999.

[5] He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary for September 9, 2014.

[7] On Saturday, December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.

[8][9] Among Judge Schroeder's notable patent cases include the VirnetX v. Apple lawsuit, where in 2017 Virnetx won a $302 million verdict against Apple, with $137 in enhanced fees and damages, totaling to a damages award near $439 million.

[10][11][12] A previous version of the case in 2016 resulted in a verdict of $625 million that Apple had to pay VirnetX.