Design flaw in civil courts. Wright was backed by billions of dollars of other people's money that he was willing to throw away, so he was able to drive up cost for others and consume court time.

Had he been just an ordinary unfunded kook, his loopy writings would have just been discarded by the courts.

A court that doesn't act on demonstrable perjury is just a stadium.

He not only claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, he also started registering copyright to the bitcoin whitepaper and code.