I realize this is all intended to be in jest, but I really don't think it is appropriate to joke about companies killing people. There's really nothing funny about it (especially because it is an event that could very well happen in real life -- and I'm sure it has, even if no one was caught). Business can be extremely competetive, and not everyone in the game has the same convictions that most people do. I just don't think it is appropriate to joke about -- my two cents.
There's a rule that says that any sentence will offend someone somewhere. But that does not mean those sentences should not be spoken, and I think that even in jest there is some wisdom in here.
If I had an insurance company and someone came to me for life insurance and was a patent troll I'd find a way to shoo them out the door without a policy.
I definitely see those that antagonize the most powerful companies on the planet in a head-on battle over these silly patents as riding a very fine line. No doubt people have gotten killed over these things in the past and it is not all bad to have a reminder flash up that your presence on this globe is 'optional' and that if you piss enough rich and very powerful people off you just might find yourself having an accident.
Those people that are already heavy criminals have no remorse about this, those that are not rely on the courts to do their thing. But what if the courts no longer function? No doubt a larger number of people will take matters in to their own hands, if only out of frustration or desperation.
That's one of the motivations that judges have to try to get things right, our whole legal fiction depends on the courts being perceived as 'working'. If that goes out the all bets are off.
Some science fiction writers have gone to some effort to depict the kind of world that would result from that.
