If you want more people to read patents, you need to make them more understandable (as you say), and get rid of treble damages for potentially accidental infringement of a patent you "should have" been aware of because you were reading patents.

'Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.'

Make things as vague as possible while still patentable, and no clearer.

I find them easy to read. It's a style imposed by the need to be exhaustively specific. Just keep at it, you get used to it.