Should they not punish the region? The Eastern district is corrupt.
"well we don't want to be considered as doing business there, y'all need to fix your courts..."
Cue cries of corporations becoming more powerful than governments.
That is a legitimate reason for concern. US corporations have ravaged entire countries in the past. Four of the largest US tech corporations taking coordinated action to punish a part of the US judicial system is something to be concerned about. If you're concerned about corporate lobbying, you should be at least as concerned about that. Probably more.
A fun idea, never going to happen though...
There is literally nothing the customers can do to change the outcome -- even through the electoral or political process -- except by petitioning Congress to change patent law.
This is all very indirect, but I think it's worth a try.
In the case of Gilstrap's predecessor, there's a direct connection.
> The top judge for patent cases in East Texas used to be John Ward, until he "retired" to join his son in a local law practice representing patent trolls.
From https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151101/00440632686/court...