The companies prey on small inventors telling them they see vast potential and encouraging them to patent the idea immediately.

Indeed the lie at the heart of the American patent system is that it is designed to help small inventors.

It cuts the lawyers out of part of the process, streamlines and doesn't make things less fair to smaller inventors.

"A 20-year rule is a mechanism to defeat the rights of the small inventor."

It is likely to make vulnerable individual and small inventors, who don't have an army of lawyers on retainer.

The $700 an hour cost of IP lawyers means that few small inventors can even consider fighting a lawsuit.

Every small inventor would be robbed on every idea they had.

The small inventor would be completely overshadowed by large companies.

Publicly, it states that a major goal is to assist small inventors against corporations.

"For the truly small inventor, we might do the search for them," he said.