The story of how patent reform got corrupted by congressional lobbyists

A long article from Huffington Post talking about the different power players in patent reform, and how tech lost to pharma. It makes a lot of sense, and depressingly, there's no easy answer to fixing it, especially with the amount of corporate sponsorship in Congress these days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/patent-reform-congress_n_906278.html?view=print&comm_ref=false