Patents are Supposed to Encourage Innovation. Without Reform, They’ll do the Opposite.

Patent reform isn’t the kind of topic you’d expect to get much attention. It’s really boring — and I mean deep in the weeds wonky and boring. But start-ups and small inventors are now so threatened by people exploiting loopholes in the patent system that Congress must now step in and take action. That’s why patent reform moved from the back halls of Congress to front and center of policy debates.

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