Chris Coons actually said...

"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."

"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 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."

"a targeted, narrow approach that focuses on the abusive behavior, such as that recently proposed by Senator Coons in the STRONG Act"