I would add, if you didn't....

Here's some ideas on what to say:

http://www.agoracom.com/ir/patriot/messages/716777#message

Some other examples of individuals patenting products (and the infringers that had to pay):

http://www.agoracom.com/ir/patriot/messages/716917 

Intex Plastic Sales Co. v. Charles Hall
According to lead counsel Jack Slobodin, Charles Hall was provoked into pursuing his patent-infringement claim. The California inventor had devised and built the first "modern" water bed in 1968, as part of a master's degree program at San Francisco State University. Years later Intex Plastic Sales Co., a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, sued Hall in an attempt to declare his patent invalid. Hall countersued on the grounds of infringement. "The case is famous because a group of investors acquired part of Hall's right to enforce the patent," notes cocounsel Edward Wright. In March 1991 a six-person federal jury ruled that from 1982 to 1988, Intex had infringed on Hall's 1971 patent. The jury awarded Hall $4.8 million, about 9.5% of the $50.6 million in revenues Intex had derived from water-bed sales. Ultimately, the damages paid totaled $6.8 million, including interest. One high point of the trial: lawyer Slobodin showed the jury a tape of Hall bouncing on his water bed on an episode of The Dinah Shore Show, circa the late 1970s, in an effort to prove that Hall was indeed recognized as the official inventor of the water-bed design.

My letter points out that the individual who finds a way to build a better mousetrap should be protected as the current law provides.

If  Bell, Edison, or any other famous inventor thought they could not profit from their hard work, where would we be today?

Where will we be tomorrow if the small R+D companies and inventors let's say working on patenting the battery powered car that can go 600 miles on a ten minute charge decide to stop research when this bill passes? 

American innovation....... stopped dead cold by a congress looking out for its lobbyists.

Great job, to those who "barely" won in '06.

Let's sendsome more $$$ to OPEC, and those who support terrorism.