The bigger issue is that it allows NPEs to protect themselves from this process (by declaring themselves as "small" and "inventor-owned"), making it kinda useless.
that's only true for NPE's that are enforcing patents that are owned by the inventor, and isn't the case for most of what people would call patent trolls. The EFF represents that the majority of patent trolls (which is something that EFF pretends to be the only party that brings patent lawsuits... lol, completely disingenuous on their part) are the kind where there is one person that invented a ton of patents and is enforcing them, but that's not the case. EFF doesn't even pretend to navigate this distinction.