[Ryoung27]

Nick Offerman has a great quote about this, it boils down to the guy deserves money for something he created and others could have, but were too cheap to make and require. It's not the patent holders fault that they can make money from caring about people's safety.

[counttheforks]

No, it's very clearly the fault of the US patent system. If you design a capitalist hellhole then of course people will try to get rich off of it.