Whether or not you own a Galaxy or an iPhone, this decision is the right one. The ITC failed to take into consideration Samsung's FRAND obligations that encumber the patents in question, which made their decision just plain wrong.
On top of that, the ITC raised considerable doubt about whether or not the patent was even a SEP to begin with. Quite ironically, when Samsung submitted the patent in question to SETI because it "may" be essential, Apple itself argued that the patent was NOT essential (page 50 of the ITC ruling).
http://essentialpatentblog.com/2013/07/itc-releases-public-v...
This is a protectionist move by Obama, nothing more, nothing less. Had the tables been reversed - an ITC ban on a Samsung product with the exact same ruling - Obama would not have stepped in. Anyone who has read the ITC ruling knows what's really going on.
You really believe this? That the committee whose job it is to consider such things and spent months deliberating is not considering the one thing that every internet commentator is apparently an expert on?
This is the reality distortion field taken to the extreme of willful self delusion.
It would have made immediately obvious to everyone the need for patent system reform.