The greatest costs are how much time you spend, your attorney's spend, etc. which are not arbitrary fees that can be increased or decreased by decree. So increa

The greatest costs are how much time you spend, your attorney's spend, etc. which are not arbitrary fees that can be increased or decreased by decree. So increase or decreasing fees won't improve accountability much. The basic problem is patent cases are inherently highly complex and specific to particulars and context, and the legal system is inherently inefficient and unpredictable. These are worst case legal situations for good actors, but the best case terrain for bad actors that can carefully select the battles they want! The only "simple" solution I can think of is, that a pattern of patent troll behavior is explicitly made illegal, and judgements and findings against trolls can puncture normal limited liability protections of corporations and business arrangements. Taking out the serial trolls could then be made profitable and repeatable for legal entrepreneurs, who can assemble the deep pockets, and accept the large risks, required.