Comment That's Some Serious Sensationalism EFF (Score 2, Interesting) 110
Imagine a small startup getting a lifeline patent to secure Series B funding only to be hit by an IPR by Apple so they can steal your ideas in the meantime and then you lose all your funding and no longer have the capital to even assert your valid patent.
This par for the course when it comes to PGR.
You also have major corporations filing petitions under various aliases to bog down the PTAB to keep a patentee in limbo until said corporation can put together a thinly veiled case to drag a competitor through litigation induced bankruptcy.
While IPR has weakened the patent troll (yes it has), it has only emboldened the mega-corporations (Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc...) to unforseenly weaponize the process to quietly crush their competition without much public attention.
This is a small corrective action with language that will evolve.