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Are the following two characterisations of symplectic modules, using the language of form rings, the same?

Page 205 of the book Classical Groups and Algebraic K-Theory defines a symplectic module to be an arbitrary quadratic module $(M,h,q)$ over a form ring $(R,\Lambda)$ with $(J,\varepsilon)$ where $J=\...
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Is there any point in considering Form Rings when 2 admits an inverse?

In the study of quadratic spaces over general rings, there is a type of scalar which people consider called a Form ring $(R,\Lambda)$ relative to some anti-automorphism denoted $(-)^J:R\to R$ and ...