Small business owners nationwide are doing everything they can to fortify their businesses in our slowly recovering economy. In communities across the United States, it is the jobs small businesses provide and the consumers they serve that keep our recovery moving. However, this recovery is threatened when small businesses are faced with costly and frivolous lawsuits brought on by patent assertion entities—commonly referred to as patent trolls. Small businesses are looking for smart patent reform legislation that would help prevent patent trolls from targeting small businesses.