> The system needs to be balanced and returned to a higher level of predictability…

Yes, absolutely – desperately needed.

> …one mechanism is to have the Director involved in decisions by the Board.

I have no idea how this idea connects with the previous sentence. It’s like: “Recognizing that the national debt is a serious and urgent issue, we recommend ending network neutrality.” No logical connection here.

The Board is made up of administrative law judges. The Director of the USPTO is a political appointee. As I recall, the recent USPTO directors, collectively, have zero minutes of judicial experience. How would this change make any sense? Never mind that there have to be specific requirements for appointing judges to the panel that are probably violated by a per se appointment of the director.