content: Well the issue is that if a small inventor comes up with an idea, it shouldn't be stolen from him simply because he doesn't have the means to bring his idea to fruition.  Any large company could take that idea and use it free without the patent.  Shouldn't the small inventor be protected? But of course, this leads to issues like we see here.  I'm not sure if there's any proper way to write the laws to solve the problem, but I'm certainly in favor of hiring hitmen to take out patent trolls.