The mobile patent mess may get worse

That will help the situation. The only way out is to have the whole system collapse for good.

The only way out is to first reach a phase of absolute non-sense: more lawyers than engineers working in the business, competition consistently blocked by lawsuits, and all innovation moving to Asia, which will eventually ignore the funny laws of the declining western world (they already own us anyway). Then and only then has the problem a chance to draw some media/public/political attention. Until then nothing good will ever happen. Why would it? Until then trying to fix the patent mess is just a very naive and vain political effort and a waste of time. Who cares about a bunch of weirdos whining about an obscure and boring problem on a couple of geeky websites? Only when the release of the iPhone 8 will be blocked then normal people might start to care. Delaying the Galaxy tab is a good start (which actually drew media attention), but it is far from enough. Please more of this.