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PricewaterhouseCoopers statistics show that the Eastern District of Texas had 55 decisions from 1995 to 2014 involving [[Non-Practicing Entities|non-practicing entities]] (NPEs) as patent holders, and 49 percent of these NPEs were successful in their patent litigation cases. The Eastern District of Texas decided a total of 148 patent litigation cases from 1995 to 2014, which means that decisions involving NPEs made up 37% of the total decisions in the Eastern District of Texas during this time period.
Congress' push for patent reform creates the perception that patent trolls are preventing innovation. However, only 1 to 2 percent of patents in the United States are actually litigated, and there has not been a significant change in the amount of patent litigation that warrants a complete reform of the current patent system.
