I&#x27;m not a lawyer, but my understanding of patent trolls is that they make all their threats and legal actions through shell companies they can light up and shut down for a few hundred dollars. How much good does it do to go after them? Is Newegg piercing the corporate veil, or are they just trying to invalidate patents?<p>Aren&#x27;t there tens of thousands of bad patents? Wouldn&#x27;t it cost billions to invalidate them all, and by the time you were done there&#x27;d just be another ten thousand new ones?<p>I think what they&#x27;re doing is great, but I just wish it wasn&#x27;t so sacrificial. Does it make economic sense for them to do this? As long as it doesn&#x27;t, the primary focus should be on legislation.