Well, one might say one of the goals of such a company is to get big enough to be able to pay, er influence, Congress to fuck it up for everybody else and leave you free to move forward.

If they are a publicly traded company it could be argued that lobbying Congress for beneficial legislation would be a part of their due diligence toward increasing stockholder value.

Yes, that could very well be true. As long as the lobbying is done in a legal manner, which sometimes it is not. But my comment was probably more correctly aimed at Congress than at companies.