Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

The civil jury as an institution was vitally important to the Founding Fathers.

Rhode Island is facing this same problem.

They do not like getting in front of a civil jury, for instance, where if you try to tamper with them, it is a crime.

You do not want to vindicate your ire at the deplorable conduct of these patent trolls at the expense of getting a bill through the Senate.