Many contracts include "general" provisions stating that the invalidity of one provision will not affect (infect?) the rest of the contract. These invalidity provisions commonly come into play in litigation over noncompetition covenants (often referred to as 'noncompetes'). In many if not most jurisdictions, the law requires noncompetes to be reasonable in time and geographic scope. See, e.g., Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 15.50. In some of those jurisdictions, courts will sometimes be willing to reform an overly-broad noncompete to make it enforceable (a practice known as 'blue-penciling') if the parties expressly agree to it in the agreement (note that this clause does not do so); in other jurisdictions, however, a noncompete must stand or fall as drafted.