This Bill Would Revive The Worst Patents On Software—And Human Genes

The majority of high-tech patent lawsuits are brought by patent trolls—companies that exist not to provide products or services, but primarily have a business using patents to threaten others’ work. 

Some politicians are proposing to make that bad situation worse. Rather than taking the problem of patent trolling seriously, they want to encourage more bad patents, and make life easier—and more profitable—for the worst patent abusers. 

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, S. 2140, (PERA), sponsored by Senators Thom Tillis …