It's certainly a concern for a small company when it recognizes that once it has obtained a patent, if a large organization wishes to infringe or create a lot of obstacles for it and wants to throw enough money at doing that, it could tie the small company up in court for a long time and the small company would really be at a huge disadvantage. Certainly if there were some program under which either you would have a separate small claims model approach or you would have some mechanism whereby there would be resources for a small company if it could demonstrate that the technology had a net economic value to the country, there might be some resources they could rely upon to defend themselves against a very large corporation.
On June 12th, 2012. See this statement in context.