(December 12, 2016, 9:41 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An inventor’s efforts to sue the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and several FTB employees for patent infringement was properly rejected by a California federal judge pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded Dec. 9 (Leslie Ann Peralta v. California Franchise Tax Board, et al., No. 16-1820, Fed. Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 21897)....