He might be a good guy who has chosen to work within the system, and he might be defending the system to strengthen his influence over others that are also in t

He might be a good guy who has chosen to work within the system, and he might be defending the system to strengthen his influence over others that are also in the system. But there's no reason software patent critics should believe that he's solving the problems, given the history of patents in the US and the contents of this article. What he should say: "'Amazon one-click' is a low-quality patent", "we judge XX% of software patents to be low-quality", and "our reforms will reduce this to Y%". Until then, keep making noise.