Change doesn't often happen in huge leaps and bounds. If you wait for huge leaps and bounds to occur before you endorse a change, you'll never get any change at all.

This at least brings attention to the issue, and has the support of Google (and, I bet, other tech companies large and small in the coming days) and the USPTO. Before today, would you have expected so large a community as SE to create a website specifically dedicated to reviewing patents, of all things? The scale of this site and its supporters should show that this is a growing issue, and it's only going to garner more attention through Ask Patents.

One big advantage a site like Ask Patents gives us is the ability to quote numbers and statistics. Consider an argument like this being presented to Congress. 75% of the 500,000 patent filings in 2013 were found by Ask Patents to contain claims on prior art, and were rejected by the USPTO. Each of these cost an examiner two work days to review the application, prior art submissions, and process the rejection. That adds up to <insert math here>, or a whole lot of money! Clearly we need to enforce fees on rejected patents to cut down on government spending.

I wholeheartedly support this idea and would love to see it take off.