  Current measurements of the high energy behavior of the pion form factor are
obtained from pion electroproduction data. These values are model dependent,
utilizing the Vanderhaeghen, Guidal and Laget Regge (VGL) Model for their
extraction. Recent work which examined the implementation of gauge invariance
in that model suggested that it might lead to extracted pion form factors
larger than the true values. Here we introduce a new model which preserves the
successes of the VGL Model but implements gauge invariance in a new way. To
demonstrate the validity of this new approach, we first use it to extract the
pion form factor in a simple toy model. When compared with the previous
extraction method, the improved model leads to a more reliable extraction. The
success in this simple model leads us to reanalyse the electroproduction cross
section data, where we obtain comparable values for the pion form factor to
those obtained using the VGL procedure.
