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So, until the change happens, various offshore & legal strategies must be implemented to keep the US “justice” system from being used by the sneaky or powerful to siphon money from innovative new or financially weak companies.

Not to mention, it was lobbyists bribing politicians that made those copyright/patent laws as they are & kept them that way to this day. The pharmaceutical industry alone pays several million a year. These are laws that affect everyone on a regular basis & make this extortion very easy & legal for the attackers (err I.P. hoarders). On the other hand, the Russian issue affects companies sporadically & can be used by both sides. Personally, I think we have it worse on this issue.

So, the thing you worry about already happens in the United States en masse. But in Russia, it might not be a problem & business would flow as usual. That was the point. Certain businesses that are high-risk here are lower risk there due to the corruption & even a $100,000 bribe to shut down a lawsuit would have been better than paying say $200 million (i.e. Microsoft) to a troll. Worse, the troll will use the money to extort even more companies, reducing innovation & maybe putting them out of business. I don’t support or endorse corruption in governments, but if it’s going to persist it might be a survival strategy for certain companies with high risk I.P.

(If you have a better one, by all means do tell. So far, even Microsoft’s highly paid lawyers couldn’t find a way out of this legalized extortion.)

Add to this the large numbers of people that are bankrupted every year through health costs that are no fault of their own even if they’re insured – to an outsider looking in Americans look like fools other than the very wealthy, no offense meant BTW.

If you’re going to entrust you’re healthcare entirely to profit making entities at most levels what do you expect exactly though – it’s ultimately in the entities interest to not spend money on your healthcare and for you to die early should you be so unfortunate as to require large amounts to be spent.

You romanticizing corruption just because it’s a foreign concept for you. If you ever had first-hand experience with this societal phenomenon (large scale institutional corruption, the way it is in Russia) you’d never write something like the comment above. Saying that being able to pay off judges to deal with the attacks of patent trolls is a good thing is akin to saying that having no law at all is good because one could execute murderers/serial killers without a nuisance of a due process or a possibility of wrongful acquittal.
Yes, unequivocal law abiding may sometimes bring absurd and irrational consequences, but the judicial nihilism demonstrated by this post is guaranteed to cause a lot more problems for the society.