If you documented your invention and have signed witnesses for it, you can try to cut in front of the current inventor. It sounds like it has some appeal because it received a lot of press, and it's only a patent application, not an issued patent.
I might as well forget about that one...
This very day, I thought about vehicles being equipped like EZ Pass tollbooths, except able to scan a bar code when involved in an accident. This would end "Hit and Run."
Of course, it would take a law to eventually phase in the device. Maybe it could be made small enough to reside on a pedestrian's cell phone.
Then I started thinking about the film "Minority Report," where one's movements through town are constantly eye-scanned, so I put the idea on hold.
Won't matter as soon as somebody starts offering the 3-D hologram tombstone..