Well, we don't know that this lawsuit will lose us any technology. I would hope the point of the suit is that this technology already exists and is being sold

Well, we don't know that this lawsuit will lose us any technology. I would hope the point of the suit is that this technology already exists and is being sold but some other company is trying to gain funding using the patented idea. If you had no patents I have to imagine you'd lose a lot more technology because there just wouldn't be any reason for any non-super corporation to come up with anything. As soon as someone had a good idea, a big corp could just throw 100 human resources at it and create it before the person with the actual idea could. Having said that, the current system is an embarrassment.