If this is true, it doesn't help at all. Getting a patent approved by the USPTO takes literally years (plural plus). Yet look at all the terrible patents and how the patent system has essentially become the opposite of encouraging innovation.

Government agencies will use FISA because it's there and they know it will get them what they want regardless of whether it makes sense to do it or not, leaked documents have shown.

http://exitpromise.com/patent-approval-process/