15 y/o comes out with new cancer screening.

Weather your in the right or wrong a lawsuit is won by the aggressor in most cases. You have to pay a crap ton to defend yourself in the best case scenario you might win but are still out legal fees in most cases. You can try to counter sue for cost buts thats way down the road if you get anything at all.

One of my aquarium vendors was sued for LED patent over an aquarium. (PFO Lighting.) He threw in the towel at 500K in lawyer fees and went Bankrupt. Since then the company with the bogus patent lost the rights to it after another company sued them. PFO is still out of business, too bad they were a good company to deal with. Its a terrible system where the deepest pockets almost always wins. 500k for a light patent defense, now figure what it takes to fend off a wrongful death suit. Tort costs are a large portion of everything you buy in the medical field weather you like to admit it or not. They make obscene profits but loose obscene amounts on lawsuits all the time.

your above example is an example of a lawsuit that isnt even close to what we are discussing originally. There is usually a request for "summary judgement"( or something similiar) something that is aked for to see if the suit has merit ( lawyers correct me if im wrong - but thats how i see summary judgement ) or get some sort of dismissal.

What was described in the original was claims brought against his company for falsely advertising the success rate of the pen. Thats something his insurance carrier would pick up ( with the proper coverage ) and he would only be responsible for his deductible.

I wont disagree that there are instances where the "deeper pockets" win out...this can be true in some cases. There are plenty in which the smaller guy wins out.