Excessive litigation in the U.S. limits job creation, stymies innovation, and increases costs of goods and services. In 2018, small businesses faced $182 billion in commercial tort costs, even though they brought it only 19 percent of the revenue. The entire commercial tort liability bill for 2018 was $343 billion – which means that small businesses paid more than half of the commercial liability costs in the tort system. Common sense must be returned to our system of civil litigation.