Our Right To Challenge Junk Patents Is Under Threat 

"The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio “podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether. 

We need EFF supporters to speak out against this proposal, which is a gift for patent trolls...."