"The corporate roster of backers includes Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and nearly everyone else. Similar legislation failed to pass during the last session of Congress. Other groups, including the pharmaceutical industry and small inventors, have opposed major changes to the patent system."
The special interests gather at the trough. If we have to have patents, this may be a modest improvement. But don't count on it. More important, watch what gets attached to the bill as it wends it leisurely way through the legislative process and the tasty tidbits are on offer.
