That probably will work out. The thing with patents is that their effect is of artificially inflating prices. That was always the case (patent law is designed to do just that by definition) but the problem is that it was designed for a day and age where the idea would be executed on, the lifetime of a patent roughly in line with the time it took to research something, and the concept of patent trolling laughable. The problem is made a lot worse with the fact that sheer incompetence permeates the system: the USPTO for instance effectively relies on US courts to assess the validity of US patents, and the courts in turn assume the USPTO did its homework properly to assess whether or not a patent is valid. That's a system where things like meetings over lunch breaks are patented (IBM), and competitions are held to see who can get the wackiest patent past the USPTO (former SUN).