What's remarkable to me is that the provisions this law makes (must name the specific patents infringed, and list how a product infringes) aren't already common

What's remarkable to me is that the provisions this law makes (must name the specific patents infringed, and list how a product infringes) aren't already common practice. At least it's codified now in Virginia, and we can now know what a proper assertion of patent infringement must contain.