No, it just has to make no sense in order to make tech news. Otherwise, it would be something like: "NEWSFLASH! Perfectly sensible licensing deal!"

This shows differences in generational understanding of words. "Trolling" in this case predates the widespread use with regards to Internet behavior and actually refers to fishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)

Just as trolling attempts to mimic a real school of fish, patent trolling attempts to mimic the legitimate licensing of productive patents. The reasonableness of the "bait" is entirely up to those doing the trolling. (And is largely subjective, which perhaps highlights a fundamental weakness of the current patent system.)