A lot of people, including companies with deep pockets, like Google[3], have publicly called for reform of the patent system. If this is such an important issue for us, why are we not organized around it?

This is not a rhetorical question. I genuinely don't understand why there is no major organization dedicated to pushing for patent reform. Such an organization would stand a much greater chance of enacting reforms than everyone acting individually. And such an organization could do things like organize developers in opposition to specific attacks by the trolls.

Why does this not exist? If it is simply because nobody has had the time to do it, I'll gladly pitch in and do what I can to get something rolling. If it's a deeper problem, we need to figure out what it is. In any case, enough truly is enough. We need to end this thing.

[1] http://www.eff.org/

[2] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/enough-is-enough.html

[3] http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/03/patent-reform-needed-more-than-ever.html