I’ve noticed a lot of gratuitous talk by our legislators about being all for small business and protecting the individual. They bandy about rhetoric about the Constitution and consistently are finding rights that are not spelled out or even vaguely contained in its language. Then they blatantly violate a key provision that is in fact clearly spelled out. One of the most well-defined responsibilities of Congress is to, “promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” Now, under what could arguably be one of the biggest precedent reversals in U.S. law, Congress has conspired with America’s mega corporations to change patent law to favor the largest corporations, invention houses and wealthiest individuals…