"For the USPTO, fewer patent filings are actually a godsend. The backlog, however, is evil.
Every patent application that we sit on is an American job not being created," Kappos told me. "It's a product that's not going to market. It's someone's life that's not being saved. It's growth for our country that's not being delivered."

Not entirely true. He seems to forget those who take the short-cut, steal the technology, create an industry (Intel and AMD for example), and deprive the inventors the opportunity to reap what they sew. It would seem that where the money is, the less evil they see.