There's obviously inefficiency in the system - a big cost every time a decision involves lawyers and even more if there are juries. So we should understand tha

There's obviously inefficiency in the system - a big cost every time a decision involves lawyers and even more if there are juries. So we should understand that we don't have a way to be perfect and think about where to balance the trade-offs. We want to give people a chance to make money before they are wiped out by those that copy them but I don't think we have an interest in someone "cornering the market" indefinitely. We could reduce their lifetime - that would cut a lot of decisions. We could limit the amount of money a patent is allowed to return based on an estimate of what it cost to create plus a reasonable profit rather like a kickstarter campaign. We could cancel software patents altogether.