AP article on “small-time” inventors and patent reform legislation

Last week, several newspapers ran an AP article on so-called “small-time” inventors and the pending patent reform proposals.  The story can be accessed at this Washington Post link.

The Professional Inventors Alliance, an interest group for independent and small entity  inventors (I don’t think the term “small-time” is accurate),  is spotlighted in the article.

A money quote from the article (and representative of the independent/small entity viewpoint on the proposed patent reform):

“I honestly feel that if we don’t stop what the big companies are trying to do, there won’t be any opportunity for us,” said Ronald J. Riley, the Professional Inventors Alliance’s president. “What they call patent reform is all about making it virtually impossible to enforce the patents.”

Thanks to George Margolin, independent inventor extraordinaire, for the link.