In the original cloudflare posting, they said this - "As we have explained previously, patent trolls benefit from a problematic incentive structure that allows

In the original cloudflare posting, they said this - "As we have explained previously, patent trolls benefit from a problematic incentive structure that allows them to take vague or abstract patents that they have no intention of developing and assert them as broadly as possible." It seems to me that the real problem is patents being issues for "vague and abstract" things in the first place. You're not even supposed to be able to patent a mere idea anyway. It is supposed to be something specific and well-defined (and also usually pretty narrow). The patent office sounds like the real source of the problem, not the system/structure surrounding the legality of patent application and ownership.