The 47-year-serving Democratic senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy, is finishing his marathon tenure with a patent reform bill.

It should be called “The America Hates Inventors Act.” The problem for inventors is that Congress and the Biden administration are dealing with a floundering economy. That puts pressure on them to do something — and innovators are a minority that politicians enjoy attacking. Unfortunately, while Congress can brag about changes to the patent system, the effects of running over inventor rights won’t show up in the economy for several elections after the changes are made. That means legislators can make changes now, even if they might tank our nation’s economy in the future, and never pay the price.