Uniform Arbitration Act. The United States' brief observed that under the Supreme.Enacted in 1925, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) seeks to ensure the validity and enforcement of arbitration agreements in any maritime transaction. The Federal Arbitration Act or FAA, is an act of Congress that provides for non-judicial facilitation of private dispute resolution through arbitration. Court as wrongly decided but "workable. A statute enacted in 1925 that provides the basic legal principles applicable to arbitration in the US (9 USC §§ 1-16; 9 USC §§ 201-208; 9 USC §§ 301-307). When Congress enacted the FAA in 1925, the narrow intent of Congress was to make arbitration awards enforceable in federal courts. Employmentrelated arbitration agreements have, under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), long been considered generally enforceable.