By Dana Rao ( June 8, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT) -- It's been nearly six years since Congress passed the America Invents Act, creating inter partes review and other post-grant review procedures to challenge the validity of previously issued patents — all of which have proven to be extremely effective mechanisms for invalidating bad patents. However, you would never know this if you followed the patent reform debate lately. The people economically disenfranchised from the business of asserting poor-quality patents have pushed back, intent on convincing newly appointed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu to roll back these review procedures and other patent reform gains. To combat these voices, the innovation community needs to step forward and remind Iancu why the gains of the last years are so critical for protecting the patent system and our innovation economy....