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Time for them to be broken up and regulated like a utility. It sucks but its all they fear.

There's something that they would fear much, much more than that — if they were at all aware of the possibility, that is — precisely because it would eviscerate tons of their properties instantaneously, and all it involves actually following the Constitution.

The name of the asset-class is intellectual property and it's a big business; so big that there are corporations that generate all their income via patent lawsuits in a practice called patent trolling, but the big secret is that they (Google, MS, IBM, Disney, etc), as a corporation, have absolutely zero legal right to any of it by virtue of being a corporation.

You see the Constitution empowers Congress the power to pass legislation for patent and copyright with the following clause from Article 1, Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. Notice that the power is for securing exclusive rights (that is the patent/copyright itself) to the "Inventor" or "Author", not any other person — not the "author's estate", not the "author's publisher", not the "inventor's commissioner" but only the Author/Inventor.

Yes, we all know about corporations are people — it doesn't matter — the congress is not empowered to extend the powers/protections of copyright/patent to anyone but the actual author/inventor and the corporation cannot be an author or inventor: the most it can do is direct its employees to write or invent on its behalf, a practice traditionally referred to as commissioning a work — and the commissioner is NOT the creator of said work.

Now, imagine for an instant if the Patent Office applied the above reasoning to extant patents, invalidating all patents not held by the actual inventor.