I understand you&#x27;re pro patent and your revenue might even depend on that. You also make useful tools which might be worthy of patents unlike many that the anti-software patent side fight. Yet, it&#x27;s really, really biased to base your whole claim on how much patent holders are suing away competition &amp; innovation based on some site I&#x27;ve never heard of that acts like only a handful of suits have happened.<p>Intellectual Ventures alone has pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of its investors... pro-patent, mostly-software firms... through a high volume of threats to other companies and lawsuits done with shell companies. They&#x27;ve contributed nothing to the market of value but sucked lots of money out of innovators. There&#x27;s IPNav that sued at least 1,638 companies on behalf of its clients that largely aren&#x27;t a blip on anyone&#x27;s radar in market or straight-up failed in it. There&#x27;s a number that are publicly traded specializing in nothing but patent collection and lawsuits to generate revenue w&#x2F; returns ranging from 8.59% to 71.41%. They&#x27;re listed under RMBS, VRNG, PRKR, ASUR, NTIP, and UPIP.<p>These companies are collectively raking in billions off of firms making <i>actual</i> software and hardware. They often rip off the patent inventors, too, by given them pittances for these patents they later make big bucks off of. So, EFF is defending our liberties by saying something (patent law) designed to get  actual inventions to the public while benefiting the little guy is being used as an extortion racket by one set of predators and to suppress competition from little guys by another set of predators. Most evidence is in our favor, esp with companies I listed.<p>Now, given Intellectual Ventures, IPNav, and the large public firms, are you still on the position that no threat exists to innovators from patent system and no reform is necessary to limit that?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revealed-how-giant-patent-troll-intellectual-ventures-does-business-2012-3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;revealed-how-giant-patent-tro...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;business&#x2F;has-patent-will-sue-an-alert-to-corporate-america.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;business&#x2F;has-patent-will-s...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patentvue.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;02&#x2F;stock-performance-publicly-traded-patent-trolls-year-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patentvue.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;02&#x2F;stock-performance-publicly-t...</a>