[redsymbol]

This abuse of overbroad patents - including software patents - isn't your average bad idea. It is powerfully toxic to innovation. In the global context, it is literally a threat to human progress. For the USA in particular, patent trolls are a threat to its continued eminence as a superpower.

So it's strange that some in congress still support the current patent situation. I want to believe those who serve there are generally smart and competent, regardless of whether their opinion on something agrees with mine. But the pro-troll arguments seem massively short-sighted.

Allowing the current situation to continue would be massively harmful to our descendants. I'm grateful there seems to be swelling bipartisan support to end it.

[pmorici]

"So it's strange that some in congress still support the current patent situation."

They may just be waiting on the lobbyists' checks to clear, or their supporters are benefiting from the current situation and hope to maintain it.