But if you are high profile enough they will just apply pressure on you indirectly by applying pressure on your family members who remain.

Then come to the US where we allow patent trolls to rip you apart. Where we allow frivolous shareholder lawsuits every time the stock falls 5%. Where we humiliate you in front of congress at every opportunity. Where we allow innumerable types of lawsuits for all sorts of reasons that conflict with innovation. Europe is even worse.

I think this fine, in the grand scheme of things, is relatively modest compared to the crap that other countries make you put up with.