Patent reform!

So, many years ago, the courts said you could patent "business methods" and basic computer algorithms. Like adding 2 and 2.

In recent years, the Supreme Court said that when you can't patent something "obvious", that means you can't patent something obvious. And now, the Court of Appeals is hearing a case that could overturn the business methods precedent.

This is good. This means that all the stupid people who patent obvious stuff might actually stop getting patents for stuff they didn't actually invent. Or at least courts could start throwing out dumb patents.

The patent system also needs reform so that bad patents don't get granted in the first place. Having courts that throw out bad patents is good. Not having them is better. (You just have to not keep it too tight so legitimate small inventors can still have the incentive to create.)