My argument was not that raising the price will do nothing. "Even throttled by a higher patent fee" implies that the elevated costs would have a negative impact

My argument was not that raising the price will do nothing. "Even throttled by a higher patent fee" implies that the elevated costs would have a negative impact on patent volume. My point is that merely lowering the volume of submitted patents is insufficient to effect the necessary change, because the elements that cause the system to scale poorly are not purely volume based. And that's without even getting into the reality that dramatically higher patent submission costs would heavily advantage larger players at the expense of small innovators, which is likely to make the situation worse, not better given that it is the former who cause most o the problems with software patents at the present time.