As of today, the efforts of Bitcoin Foundation and others who have told us that Bitcoin should be altered to make it more acceptable to the regulatory apparatus has finely bore fruit.
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A few points:
1. The Bitcoin Foundation is in no way associated with these jokers (neither is DATA, as far as I know).
2. No sane US merchant will cooperate unless they are required to by law. You don't turn away customers, or make them jump through extra hoops to pay you.
3. All merchant associations (BF,DATA, etc.), especially those whose members are mostly US based, will be the ones most hurt by this system becoming legally required.
I realize you don't trust the Foundation. That's fine. You may dislike their conciliatory approach. That's a separate discussion.
However you can bet that they will almost certainly be opposed to a law requiring this system, because of how much it would hurt their members.
And because they've been effective at engaging regulators, they'll be the most able to block any law forcing CoinValidation onto US merchants, whether through lobbying, lawsuits, or other methods.
The guys who will most likely stop this from becoming law in the US are the very people you blame. They've got too much to lose.