Typically the individuals and firms brought to court were permitted to continue operations while the cases were processed, which exasperated the Wrights. In the end, nearly all the cases were ruled in the Wrights’ favor. But it mattered little, as all aeronautical patents were pooled with the approval of the government when the United States entered World War I.
 
Glenn Curtiss was the Wrights’ principal target in the American patent infringement suits. Although frustrated by the Wrights’ litigiousness, Curtiss succeeded in becoming the leading aircraft manufacturer in the United States before World War I.