Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose
I like the principle, but most patent trolls are small shell companies.  If they lose, you can ask for costs, but you'll find nobody to collect from.  (And the next shell, with the same lawyers, will be suing someone else with a different garbage patent.)<p>Also there will be an uphill battle to avoid any Congressional response turning into a symmetric "loser pays" scenario.  In that situation, the troll can trivially run up huge legal fees, knowing that you will collect nothing if they lose, but you stand to lose a lot.  That change would leave trolls better off and potential victims worse off than they are now.