Straw man. Few people argue that patent litigation never has an outcome that one would consider desirable. The argument is that the net effect is not a gain for society or most inventors.

The fact that it took what appears to have been a massive lawsuit incurring millions of dollars of lawyer fees hardly seems an argument in favor of the current system either; all he had to do to recover his invention was gamble with what is quite likely more than his entire life savings, if he lost. Wow. What a system for protecting the little guy that is.

Well this isn't a patent troll patenting 1) a business process + known software application or 2) something occurring in nature story

The angry mobs typically focus mostly on software patents.

Show me a software patent used to protect a small inventor, and I might think you know what you're talking about.