Congress wants to reform a quasi-judicial tribunal that Big Tech firms have weaponized to attack their smaller rivals. Those Big Tech firms are rightfully worried that the reform legislation will prevent them from stealing smaller companies' technologies without compensation and then exhausting the smaller firms with never-ending legal challenges at the tribunal.
Congress created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in 2011 with good intentions. Lawmakers hoped it would be a faster, cheaper forum to resolve disputes about patent validity compared to the federal courts.
