Patent problems

It would seem a small company is trying the Darl McBride/SCO tactic of making some sort of bottom line. How can you patent the transfer of data in nuetral forms? There must be politicians involved in this. I'm certainly in favor of an overhaul of the patent system, but as long as there are people that support some of the silliness that has erupted out of the patent process lately, I don't know if it can be successfully fixed or not.