Two California plaintiffs have filed a class action lawsuit against Logitech, alleging the peripherals maker used illegal tariffs as an excuse to raise prices and then kept a $61 million government refund instead of passing it on to customers. The suit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Logitech was unjustly enriched at the expense of American consumers.
According to the complaint, Logitech raised prices on 51 percent of its product portfolio in April 2025, with some prices increasing by as much as 25 percent. The plaintiffs, SJK Development, a construction and residential housing builder in California, and California resident Ala Awadalla, say they each purchased Logitech mice at the higher prices.
The complaint seeks to “recover monies that Logitech extracted from American consumers as offset for import tariffs that the United States Supreme Court has since declared unlawful.” It says Logitech now stands to be reimbursed by the federal government for those tariffs, while keeping every dollar of the price increases it charged customers in response to them.
Specifically, the plaintiffs argue that without the tariff-related price hikes, they would have paid less. “Had Logitech not inflated its prices in the name of the unlawful IEEPA tariffs, Plaintiff[s] would have paid less for the same product,” the complaint reads. “Plaintiff[s] has received no refund, credit, or other compensation from Logitech corresponding to the tariff component of the price Plaintiff[s] paid.”
Logitech has made no public announcement about the price increases, which remain in place. However, the complaint highlights comments from company executives to investors indicating that the increases were meant to offset tariff costs. In a May earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Matteo Anversa said, “The positive impact of the US price actions and favorable foreign exchange more than offset the impact of tariffs and higher promotions.” He was discussing fiscal Q4 2026, which he called “the highest level of profitability in the history of the company outside of the COVID peak.”
The Supreme Court ruled in February that President Donald Trump imposed the IEEPA tariffs illegally, and the government’s refund process is ongoing. Logitech, according to the complaint, has already received a full refund of $61 million for the invalidated tariffs, including $15 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 and $46 million after the quarter ended. The complaint says Logitech has been “enriched twice over” by the higher prices and the refund. The full quote: “Logitech has been—and absent relief will continue to be—enriched twice over at its customers’ expense: once by the tariff-justified overcharges collected from Plaintiffs and the Class, and again by the government’s refund, with interest, of the very duties those overcharges were represented to cover.”
The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgement that Logitech must give the IEEPA tariff refund proceeds to customers. It joins similar legal actions filed against Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. Some customers believe they are entitled to refunds from these companies, though mass refunds could create significant financial and logistical challenges.
Nintendo, one of the companies already facing such a suit, has argued that customers “received exactly what they paid for” and that there is nothing “unjust” about Nintendo retaining money it might receive from the government as tariff refunds. Nintendo has also filed a motion to compel arbitration, a step Logitech might take as well, given that its end-user license agreement includes arbitration provisions.
Logitech did not respond to Ars Technica’s request for comment on the lawsuit.
