If you only read the excerpt and not the article, there is definitely more to the case than what has been reported.
It is a copyright infringement case, and if you are making and selling something that is found to violate someone else's trademark or copyright you can bet your bottom dollar the government will step in and regulate that (and the federal government has a constitutional authority to do so -- it is one of the few constitutional authorities it has.)
The article was poorly written. The problem was not very well explained.