The actual response further legitimizes a broken system. It presupposes that the patent is valid. Nontechnical people (including lawmakers) reading the news a

The actual response further legitimizes a broken system. It presupposes that the patent is valid. Nontechnical people (including lawmakers) reading the news about it will continue to have a mistaken impression in their heads that the patent system is a functioning, productive system that technical people are fully behind. The proposed response would be a small step towards delegitimizing it in people's minds. People love Apple products; if they heard from Apple that this patent part of a deeply broken system, that would be one step on the way towards actually getting it changed.