Dana Rohrabacher: “What we are doing is taking away the right of every independent inventor, a right that he has had since 1836, to say…”

“What we are doing is taking away the right of every independent inventor, a right that he has had since 1836, to say that if a government official in the Patent Office is doing something illegal to deny him his patent, this small inventor has a right, has a right to go to the judges and get a court action on it. What does that have to do with trolls? That is in this bill. We are taking away the rights of little guys, small inventors, in the name of getting the trolls, and we are making it impossible for small inventors to go after the big infringers, these multinational corporations which tell these guys, Screw off; you can't challenge us in the courts anyway.”