Chris Coons actually said...

"If we make it harder for a small company like yours to enforce your patent rights, they will suffer from less external investment and narrow the scope of diseases we could otherwise hope to cure in th..."

"We should first do no harm. We should not address--we should not adopt a legislative solution that is so over-broad that it will kill the ability of a small inventor to defend their patent."

"I think that is a great step in the right direction."

"we need to diminish the rights of patent owners for the benefit of small businesses, but today's hearing has done no less than turn that argument, in many ways, on its head."