The news comes at a time that Congress is working on a law, the Innovation Act, intended to curb
abuse of the patent system through measures like fee shifting and new legal discovery rules that would make it harder for patent trolls to swamp their targets with litigation costs.
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Through the mass mailing
of bad faith demand letters, some bad actors have
abused an otherwise legitimate
patent enforcement practice for the purpose
of extracting payment from small «mom and pop» businesses and other groups
of people generally unfamiliar with the
patent system,» according to the letter.