Many large companies are buying up patents to deliberately squash the patented technology from coming to market.

It sounds hard to believe, but it is true. For example, a guy invented and patented a very viable long term battery for an electric car, and an oil company (Chevron I think) bought the patent just so it could not go to market. There are many similar stories and one involving a promising AIDS drug.

I suggest that if no action (meaning a product coming to market in say 5 years) is taken on a patent, then that patent expires and becomes public property. Some people are abusing the patent laws to squash progress. The patent laws need to be changed.

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