Why would Congress ever pass a law punishing lawyers who abuse the system for personal gain at the expense of the public? They're all lawyers whose entire careers have been spent doing just that.
You mean you don't win the war? I'd say this is definitely a battle that they won, but there is still a ton of work to do to change the legal atmosphere in the USA.
Do you seriously want to live in such an atmosphere? Do you really think that if that situation ever came to be then it would be the only change occurring in society?
Patent trolls may suck, but IP is a thing we're not going to get rid of. As long as it's "property" it can be traded. As long as it can be traded, the possibility that the current owner has desires at odds with the original owner can arise.
> Do you seriously want to live in such an atmosphere?
Certainly. What these people are doing is effectively extortion and fraud; there should be a legal framework in which such abuses can be identified as such and treated accordingly.
The "IP" in question is not valid; it is predicated upon a lie. The lie is that the patented idea is a significant new invention without prior art. The trolls know this and exploit it by looking for obvious implementations of everyday things that could conceivably land within the language of a patent, which is a patent of specifically this type which they specifically acquired for the purpose of trolling.
