Offering to settle is usually fine for involved parties (as far as I understand, I’m not a lawyer). The “problem” (from the USPTO’s perspective) is that congres

Offering to settle is usually fine for involved parties (as far as I understand, I’m not a lawyer). The “problem” (from the USPTO’s perspective) is that congress set up this process so any outside party can bring an IPR case, making it potentially profitable to pose as a public interest group when you might actually have intended all along to settle without invalidating the patent.