I tend to believe we can blame patent trolls almost exclusively, and we can hold them responsible as well. You see, patents are a monopoly, which is only justified in Article I, section 8 of the Constitution by the added innovation to We the People. Since patent trolls provide such little or no innovative input , then their acts could be viewed as simply attempting to profit and destroy the patent system for their own personal profit.
I believe a Federal lawsuit could be brought to challenge patent trolls (particularly corporate officers and patent attorneys) working for patent trolls. I worked for Intellectual Ventures, the World's largest patent troll, for nearly 5 years, and I am currently bringing an action with the4 Washington State Bar Association and the USPTO (Office of Enrollment and Discipline) to attempt to have the top patent attorneys disbarred. I will be associating this with a Federal Case ()also against the top public figures) contending that those at IV failed to abide by their Constitutional Oaths (as per patents), and thus we are planning to try them for attempting to overthrow the Constitution and the General Welfare of We the People by their Ponzi-like scheme.
The connection of major companies with IV could also be devastating for the alternate companies. For example, Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are among IV's largest customers. It could be implied that IV is functioning as a shell-game for Microsoft to provide an unfair advantage for Microsoft over the remainder of the Open Source Software companies (IBM, HP, Sun, etc.). In such a "Federal Case" challenging IV for being a patent troll, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett could be deposed and asked why they consider themselves above the Constitution for aligning with the well-known anti-competitive patent troll IV; and then the two richest people in the World could be individually sued for virtually all the money they have for aligning themselves with such an anti-competitive groups. l This could all be done outside of courts, etc., by publicizing such contents as I have described in patent troll challenges at www.ConstitutionalChallenge.org.
Companies that have licensed IV's "patents" could also be compelled to ignore such licenses, because they were each clearly created under duress (gun to the head) of the other companies. As such, IV and other patent trolls are simply a massive Federal antitrust, patent misuse, and fraud lawsuit waiting to happen. As such, the top corporate officers and patent counsel for companies like Microsoft, Motorola, HP, Samsung, etc. that have been "blackmailed" into licensing IV's yard-sale patent crap could be easily associated with such antitrust lawsuits unless they swore to disassociate themselves with IV.
As you can see, it is a Brave New World for the patent world. It is likely that with the corporate officers and top patent attorneys of such trolls (which I refer to as Patent whores since they provide nothing in return) will be able to be legally jettisoned from their trolls, and held individually responsible for such damages that they have done. If you don't believe this can happen, well we are starting it right now. I suspect my websites for ConstitutionalChallenge.org and Multitech Synergies (www.SynergyXTech) will describe the framework of a new-type firm or consultant firm to make the patent system better and more innovative by removing patent trolls, Ponzi-schemes, neo Robber Barrons, and other organizations that seem to favor the .1% in a discriminatory manner over the remainder of We the People. If you want to check in personally, I can be emailed at glennfoster@synergyXTech.com. Carpe Diem.