diff --git a/arrow-ipc/regen.sh b/arrow-ipc/regen.sh
index 11e6273d1206..d828e1027380 100755
--- a/arrow-ipc/regen.sh
+++ b/arrow-ipc/regen.sh
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ for f in `ls *.rs`; do
         # Now prefix the file with the static contents
         echo -e "${PREFIX}" "${SCHEMA_IMPORT}" | cat - $f > temp && mv temp $f
     elif [[ $f == "Message.rs" ]]; then
+        sed --in-place='' 's/List<Int16>/\`List<Int16>\`/g' $f
         echo -e "${PREFIX}" "${SCHEMA_IMPORT}" "${SPARSE_TENSOR_IMPORT}" "${TENSOR_IMPORT}" | cat - $f > temp && mv temp $f
     elif [[ $f == "SparseTensor.rs" ]]; then
         echo -e "${PREFIX}" "${SCHEMA_IMPORT}" "${TENSOR_IMPORT}" | cat - $f > temp && mv temp $f
diff --git a/arrow-ipc/src/gen/Message.rs b/arrow-ipc/src/gen/Message.rs
index b7abdc7b2a3b..81d22c810ab3 100644
--- a/arrow-ipc/src/gen/Message.rs
+++ b/arrow-ipc/src/gen/Message.rs
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ pub struct MessageHeaderUnionTableOffset {}
 /// Metadata about a field at some level of a nested type tree (but not
 /// its children).
 ///
-/// For example, a List<Int16> with values `[[1, 2, 3], null, [4], [5, 6], null]`
+/// For example, a `List<Int16>` with values `[[1, 2, 3], null, [4], [5, 6], null]`
 /// would have {length: 5, null_count: 2} for its List node, and {length: 6,
 /// null_count: 0} for its Int16 node, as separate FieldNode structs
 // struct FieldNode, aligned to 8