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Patent trolls benefit from it being expensive and time-consuming to challenge patents (and defend yourself from infringement claims)

These regulations are actually beneficial to big business. It makes it significantly easier to defend your own patents and sue anybody that infringes on them.

I imagine that these benefits are much bigger than the downside of dealing with patent trolls.

Tech companies aren't the only big businesses in the US.

Are tech companies really the ones lobbying hardest for policy changes? I suspect other industries are the ones pushing harder with fallout for tech.