I suggest the movie, "Hot Coffee." The Tort Reform Bush/Rove talking point should be recognized and citizens shouldn't be eager to give up their defensive options.

To be clear, take it for what it's worth but the malpractice data is sourced from Stanford which relies on opinions and research from the Hoover Institution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution) a Conservative and Libertarian think tank. If ideology filled rhetoric is to be propagated, it should at least be identified. Similarly, I feel that Bill Snyder is tainting his perspective with a Conservative anti-small business, pro-corporate ideology. Patent law exists to protect smaller businesses from larger ones (not to empower patent trolls) and mergers and layoffs happen irrespective of patent holdings for the enrichment of the top tier of financiers.