“The USPTO would prohibit anyone from challenging the patents of “small entities” and “under-resourced inventors.””
Any troll can call itself a small inventor, and Shipping and Transit did after 500 lawsuits. It valued its own 34 patents at $1. Inter partes review is how thousands of bad patents got thrown out at a fraction of the cost of court. The patent office issued the junk and now wants to protect it from the people who clean up after it.