Dana Rohrabacher: “Let us remember, as we go through this debate, that it is the contention of those who oppose this legislation that this…”

“Let us remember, as we go through this debate, that it is the contention of those who oppose this legislation that this legislation has a more dramatic negative impact on the independent inventor who is seeking justice from the multinational corporations who infringe a great deal upon these little guys, and we are cutting off the little guys' ability to protect their patent by making it much more difficult, number one, to have a patent. {time} 1100 How does that stop the trolls, by making it more difficult to have a patent? And it makes it more difficult to defend a patent, as we are seeing in this amendment. And how does that necessarily deal with the trolls? So we now have put a huge burden that small, independent inventors don't have now when they are fighting Goliath. They are fighting these big corporations that routinely infringe and steal from the little guy; and as I have said openly in the beginning, this is the strategy set down by these big corporate interests to make trolls the issue and not patent rights the issue. In this particular amendment, what we have added is a further burden on the part of the small inventor to protect his patent in the name of getting the trolls. We have notification required and confirmation of exactly who owns it. What we have got here now in the current law, yes, small inventors can seek investors, can seek people to join them to help them take on the big guys.…”