Is the RIAA afraid of taking on International Music Piracy?

NYT article, by Mark Landler, discusses all the piracy going on in Europe and Asia: For Music Industry, U.S. Is Only the Tip of a Piracy Iceberg

Piracy, of course, affects more than a pop star's paycheck. Sales of recorded music have plunged more steeply in several European and Asian countries than in the United States because of a combination of file sharing, home CD burning and the mass production of knock-off disks. In Germany, Europe's largest and hardest-hit market, sales have fallen by a third in the last five years. They are projected to decline another 20 percent this year, compared with a 12 percent first-half decline in the United States.

The article says that in China 9 out of 10 recordings are pirated and that one German who was interviewed says he has burned 700 to 800 CD's, many with downloaded songs for himself and his friends, yet the RIAA is busy here in the States suing 12 year olds and grandmothers who upload 8 songs to Kazaa?