The article title appears to be a clear attempt to bait people into reading by making some connection to silicon valley.
Mention of Silicon Valley comes way down in the article and the point they almost seem to be making is how whatever was done wrong wouldn't have been a problem if GT was more like Stanford.
In any case try and think of what the title of the article would be if not the one listed? "Academic at Georgia Tech's house raided?"
I tend to agree with your point that the title is bad. Techmeme has the same article on their front page and the title is: "Case of Georgia Tech professor illustrates risks in taking university research commercial" which pretty accurate.
Mention of Silicon Valley comes way down in the article and the point they almost seem to be making is how whatever was done wrong wouldn't have been a problem if GT was more like Stanford.
In any case try and think of what the title of the article would be if not the one listed? "Academic at Georgia Tech's house raided?"