What it means is that some corporate barons are giving free rein to their greed and avarice, and fortunately there are a few in Congress who are willing to tackle a minor misdemeanor, since they are afraid of the major ones.
This started in the model train sector, when rail companies objected to the use of their corporate logos on model rail cars. There is a little more justice on their side, since these always were, technically, protected symbols owned by those businesses. However, copyright and trademark law generally holds that failure to defend a copyright or trademark when a violation of rights becomes known removes the legal protection. In other words, if you know that someone is using your intellectual property or trademark without permission, and do not tell them to cease and desist within a reasonable period of time, you lose the rights to that property and it enters public domain.
But in the case of military hardware, we paid for it. Secondly, these corporations owe the model manufacturers for decades of advertisement and public relations work that they received at the model companies' expense.
I'll send you a copy of the letter I sent my senators by e-mail.