Instead, only the largest companies can defend patents, which is just as bad, or worse. Patent application fees should reflect the real cost of processing the

Instead, only the largest companies can defend patents, which is just as bad, or worse. Patent application fees should reflect the real cost of processing the application. If improving patent quality requires an increased processing cost, then this should happen, since not doing so unreasonably increases future litigation costs for everyone. Subsidizing small companies' applications might then be reasonable if we want to promote startups and smaller research groups, but there's no reason to subsidize the largest companies' applications.