This is most telling...
"In the 11-year period 1996-2006, the seven CPF founding corporations disclosed $1.9 billion in patent settlement payments, an average of $173 million per year. During that same time, these seven corporations had collective revenues of more than $1.7 trillion.
As a percent of their revenues for those 11 years, disclosed patent settlements were one-ninth of one percent (0.11 percent). In the entire 11-year period, the highest portion of total revenues devoted to patent settlement was in 2002, when it was 3/10th of one percent (0.3 percent). In 2006, the ratio of patent settlements to revenues was 1/25th of one percent (0.04 percent). This hardly seems a great burden on these seven companies."
