The Patriot Act means the US three letters agencies could get whatever they want from whatever US company(or company that sells in the US). As the article says

The Patriot Act means the US three letters agencies could get whatever they want from whatever US company(or company that sells in the US). As the article says, they could ask for the code for making an audit. Of course they can do whatever they want with it. They can abuse this power in so many ways, from giving this source code to competitors but "closer to home", individual members of those agencies selling it for profit, or analyzing vulnerabilities and not reporting them to you.