>It is beyond silly to claim that patent reform would harm small inventors when it is the status quo that harms small inventors.
It might be, that the status quo harms small inventors. But I wanted to give a different perspective on the one thing that is in focus with the last patent reforms. What you describe, has nothing to do with that.
The problem is, that the intention of the reform was to prevent parties with no own production to sue other companies because of patent infringements. And such a move would of course block some patent trolls (not all) but also would massively harm small or single person inventors.
"It is beyond silly to claim that" any reform will make things better.