John Dingell actually said...

This matter has been dawdling by prodigious overlong delay, and it has simply got to come to a halt.

It is extortion, plain and simple, and it results in significant harm to inventors, small businesses, and start-ups.

One notorious patent troll, Inevado, sent over 13,000 demand letters to users of Wi-fi routers.

This is an abuse of the patent process which, as the Chairman accurately said, is a very important process.