Yes, this is exactly the problem I'm talking about. The barrier to patent reform is not structural. It has a name and face, and when you handwave it away to 'structural problems' you just encourage everyone to do nothing.
The problem is structural though. Replace the first past the post voting rules with a system that allows for coalition government, and you will magically see the diminishment of special interest influence across the board.
But that can't be done without the right people in office, and the first step towards getting the right people in office is to identify who the wrong people in office are.
It's a much smaller, and probably far easier to identify set to enumerate the "right" ones currently in office. I'm pretty sure that set could be counted on the fingers of one hand, across both houses.
