The firm that Cruz worked for was not involved in the original defense, but only in the appeal. Cruz did not argue the case. Cruz also does not get to pick and choose which cases his employer takes on.
The biggest mistake in the case was that the plaintiff set up shop in China with the naive expectation that China would not steal his technology. Sadly, it is a mistake that too many American manufacturers make. The plaintiff won the case and won the appeal, but China still has the technology.
“Cruz also does not get to pick and choose which cases his employer takes on.”
Sure he does. But hey, $250,000 is a lot of money...it buys a trailer load of “machine gun bacon”