Part of the problem here is the legal environment created by Bayh–Dole, Stanford v. Roche, and their fallout. These universities do not play a substantive role

Part of the problem here is the legal environment created by Bayh–Dole, Stanford v. Roche, and their fallout. These universities do not play a substantive role in the development of these technologies, but they get the IP because researcher are obliged to sign away their rights in order to get federal funds. Inventions are the natural property of their inventors, and we should make it harder to compel them to preemptively sigh away those rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_v._Roche_Molecular_Systems,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_v._Roche_M....