Because patent specialists are experts at defining the widest possible scope for their idea, when I have reason to read a patent I find it a confusing word mess of noise, that does not have any meaningful interpretation until a case is argued in court, at which point the word salad is brought into the appropriate interpreted focus.

I am not convinced an independent inventor is able to ever file a patent that can not be countered from another patent that had no intention to cover the inventor's use case when written, it's just a useful tool to protect the filer in any and all scenarios.

Does anyone - except patent specialists who make their living from this - see value in the patent process at all any more? We're a long, long way from the original intent of the process these days, it seems.