I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of patent trolls is that they make all their threats and legal actions through shell companies they can light up and shut down for a few hundred dollars. How much good does it do to go after them? Is Newegg piercing the corporate veil, or are they just trying to invalidate patents?

Aren't there tens of thousands of bad patents? Wouldn't it cost billions to invalidate them all, and by the time you were done there'd just be another ten thousand new ones?

I think what they're doing is great, but I just wish it wasn't so sacrificial. Does it make economic sense for them to do this? As long as it doesn't, the primary focus should be on legislation.