Eating leftover rice can indeed lead to food poisoning if it's not handled properly. The culprit isn't necessarily the reheating process itself, but rather the conditions in which the rice was stored before reheating.
Louisiana rice millers and the entire industry took the gloves off in the fight against what they call "rice pretenders," and they won with a knock-out.
Many people wonder why are they in front of the restaurant and what's inside each of them? Is it rice? Storage space for the restaurant? Refrigeration?