We who scribble for a living find it easy to go off on those who do not, and today's bulls-eye is on the patent reform bill recently signed into law, the America Invents Act of 2011. One of the interesting things about H.R. 1249 is that it puts some of the fees collected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in an escrow for Congress to decide whether to release to PTO. I've asked a number of people around Washington whether they think Congress can resist the temptation to write PTO an IOU and just keep the money, and almost...