Detail horror stories of rank stupidity in some current software patents. Detail the financial waste, staff waste, product delays, innovation deterance, etc. We need to address and dispell the delusion that patents protect the small inventor. Assuming that we will continue to be screwed by software patents in some form, propose concrete limitations on what can be patented. Asumming ditto, propose a comprehensive public PTO library of prior art, with penalties against the PTO and PTO staff for issuing software patents when there is prior art in that library.
Software patents do the opposite.
More flames later.