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There is going to be plenty of litigation brought against Linux users from firms who can see their IP and patents in the Linux source code.

There's your problem, dude. There is none. SCO has had almost two years to come up with even one line of code and they can't do it. No other company, after seeing SCO start this process, has come forward with similar claims. The source code is open for all to see, and has been for 15 years, yet no company has made that claim.

Why do think that is? Meditate on that for a while.

Red Hat doesn't do that for their Linux.

There's no need. They know it and their customers know it.

"SCO has had almost two years to come up with even one line of code and they can't do it"

SCO has shown thousands of lines of code to experts from the computer industry (like IDc, Gartner etc etc) that they have made sign confidentiality agreements.
They did this long ago.
SCO doesn't have to show any code to open source nuts that post rubbish on the Internet.
All they have to do is show their stolen code in COURT when the trial finally gets under way, just like any trial.

"No other company, after seeing SCO start this process, has come forward with similar claims."

They will.
It took 20 years to catch the Una-bomber

"The source code is open for all to see, and has been for 15 years, yet no company has made that claim."

Linux was irrelevant 15 years ago.
Plus Linux was a typically useless open source piece of junk then, until they stated shoveling stolen code into it en mass, relatively recently.
Then it miraculously acquired capabilities that it never came close to acquiring for the past 10 years before that.

"There's no need. They know it and their customers know it."

Only reason they don't is because they can't.
They have no idea where their stolen code came from. LOL!

Plus of course most of their potential and lots of their existing costumers in fact do NOT know they they are safe from patent and IP challenges.
This America, the world champion of litigation.
If your software vendor is not giving you protection, someone is gonna come after ya.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is gleefully raking in record revenues from Windows servers in part from pointing this out to potential Linux costumers and swinging them over to Windows.