William Merritt, reporter for The Hill, examines how the one-sided dialogue surrounding patents has emboldened companies to knowingly appropriate American innovation and refuse to license technologies and patents under any circumstances. He explains that abusive tactics being employed by patent evaders rob innovators of capital that could be used to create jobs and drive innovation and growth.

IP Watchdog blogger Steven J. Moore participated in a study designed to analyze the patents being asserted in litigation to determine what type of company or organization these patents were initially assigned to and what, if any, relevance that had. The study found that many of the supposed’ truths’ about NPE litigation rarely reflect reality.