On Wednesday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has introduced “the Innovation Act,” a bill designed to attack patent trolling. It’s a bipartisan effort compiled from previous bills from both sides of the aisle, and it’s attracted the praise of a number of public interest groups, including Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—the latter calls it the “Best Troll-Killing Bill Yet.”
The Innovation Act would target the parts of the legal system most abused by patent trolls: the threshold for bringing a complaint, the liability and transparency of the party alleging infringement, and the cost for parties of defending against a suit.
