Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, referred to in text, are set out in Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judi- cial Procedure. AMENDMENTS. The Federal Arbitration Act or FAA, is an act of Congress that provides for non-judicial facilitation of private dispute resolution through arbitration.4 Therefore, a general choice-of-law provision. The Federal Arbitration Act, adopted in 1925,19 authorized U.S. courts to honor pre- dispute arbitration agreements.20. The United States' brief observed that under the Supreme. Quinn2 the Texas Supreme Court held that the. The Federal Arbitration Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1925 that governs arbitration in contracts implicating interstate commerce. Sec. 171.003. UNIFORM INTERPRETATION. Arbitration Law FAQS: What is the Federal Arbitration Act?