I am from Australia and have a comment here: The article quotes that Obama "worries that the next breakthroughs in energy, transport and information technology

I am from Australia and have a comment here: The article quotes that Obama "worries that the next breakthroughs in energy, transport and information technology will occur elsewhere". The reality is that these people "elsewhere" would probably love to come to the US to carry out those breakthroughs, but they don't due to 1) The steep visa requirements, and 2) Even if they were granted access, then they know full well that they would be hit with patent lawsuits from large companies the second their work showed any promise. I can't speak for the entire rest of the world but personally this is the reason I will not bring my startup to the US - it is simply safer and easier to keep the company out of the US and sell online to its citizens. If anyone there really cared they would stop this software patent mess and hurry up with the startup visa.