There is no point in getting a patent if you cannot enforce it. The current situation already favors large patent owners, and my proposal will not make that wor

There is no point in getting a patent if you cannot enforce it. The current situation already favors large patent owners, and my proposal will not make that worse, I believe. > All this would do is cap the return of small inventors, without affecting the carpet-bombing large companies. On the contrary. IBM and MS have tens to hundreds of thousands of patents. Keeping them all "Ready to sue" would cost them billions. And .. a small inventor who can't afford $100K in court fees does not have patent protection even if they have a patent. > If they make a success of it where I failed, good on them. But I'll be owed nothing (rather than a proportion), which I think would be unfair since they'd be using my work. I'm already a victim of having been unable to spread the risk in a way that large companies can do. So ... if you had paid $0, then a company made money of it, increase the value that year to $1M (pay the $10K tax) and have them license or sue them. You're better off under my proposed system.