Billy Goats and Patent Trolls

Patent trolls, a subset of non-practicing entities, have simultaneously stifled innovation and increased the prices of technological goods.  Their modus operandi is to buy patents off dying companies at low prices and then use those patents to sue practicing entities for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  I’m sure these overpaid litigators enjoy the high financial rewards of such lawsuits, especially since they have the unfair advantage of not needing to specify their charges until after legal charges have been mounted.  However, I believe that behind the scaly green exterior of the cold-hearted patent troll is a human being itching to escape.  If anyone reading this is a patent troll, consider the harmful effects that such meaningless litigation has on the United States economy:  the prices of technological goods rise while the rate of innovation falls.  Because of a harsh litigious environment, many tech companies go bankrupt defending against patent troll lawsuits while the tech companies that do survive also have to raise the prices of their goods to compensate for legal expenses.  Unless these litigators don't want to see the cure for cancer anytime soon, they had better apply their gifted legislation skills elsewhere.