While the article is a bit short on detail, it looks like what it will take for our politician to act is most innovation moving out of the US. Currently that do

While the article is a bit short on detail, it looks like what it will take for our politician to act is most innovation moving out of the US. Currently that does not happen, because here is where all the investors are, where all the money is; but that climate can change quickly. My guess is that politicians will act then, but by then it will be too late. In all that we keep forgetting again and again why patents exist: To protect an investment by granting a temporary monopoly. It's not to make lawyers rich, nor is it to prevent newcomers entering an existing market; and they also don't exist to make money for entities that just purchased some random patent.