When a company is under federal investigation, it usually puts out a meek statement saying it is cooperating to the fullest. But not always.

Stryker, which makes orthopedic implants such as artificial hips, has filed a lawsuit against the feds to fight a subpoena the company says is “oppressive and overly broad,” Dow Jones Newswires reports.

Here’s the complaint the company filed earlier this month, naming the Department of Justice and the inspector general’s office at Health and Human Services as defendants.

The company is being investigated for allegedly submitting false Medicare and Medicaid claims, and for potentially violating anti-kickback and self-referral laws that apply to physicians, the complaint says. But, the document adds, there is “overwhelming and compelling evidence that Stryker did not commit any of these violations.”

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