Since we can't seem to stop these horrible patent trolls, perhaps they could be reined in with a law that limits how much damage they can do. If a new law limited these sorts of claims to a grand total of 10% of a company's gross sales for the year, a small business could survive these kinds of attacks without having to pay millions of dollars for lawyers. If a business was attacked by multiple patent trolls, then those trolls would have to fight each other in court as they each argued that they deserve the lion's share of the capped 10% of the company's gross sales for the year. Since our current patent system is being thoroughly abused, the question we should be asking is: What can be done to limit patent trolls so that small businesses can survive? Because right now it is very lucrative to be a patent troll, so in the future, we could wind up with a ton of them. It's not a bright future.