I guess I'll have to reconsider then; the lawyers definitely got the short end of the stick. (;
More seriously, I would have no qualms of going into the legal profession specifically to defend against this sort of brand of crazy where possible. (And of course more mundane cases as the majority.)
I'd wake up each morning feeling MUCH better than if I became something like say, a firefighter.
And because of the implications of what you just said above. I'll leave it at that.
EDIT: In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have ended the post in that way. Instead, I'll acknowledge that this solution to silly patents is certainly viable. But that at the same time calling it "The best possible thing" seems somewhat narrow in the grand scheme of things. After all, it DOES require people to die to be workable.
Of course, I'm wary of anything that comes from "that" kind of site. (You know what I mean.) However, at the same time if this is true it's definitely something for me to ponder as I look out my window tonight, knowing that one day there may be a time where a comforting dark instills only a faint sense of paranoia.