Doesn't seem to work like that

Perhaps the patent trolls simply aren't a big enough problem yet. In other words, as software companies are growing, there are now bigger software companies than in 1994, and naturally: the patent weapon against smaller companies is simply becoming more useful. If the patent troll pain is not growing proportionally more than this "utility" than, it follows that patents will still be seen in good light for larger companies. Do you have any evidence that this patent troll pain is indeed growing as fast as the larger companies' utility of patents as a weapon is growing? If not, I am not quite sure you can say that "the opposite is happening", unless you are merely responding to this small part of my post: "perhaps we could see their abandon"...