I'm the author. Yes, there are other suggested improvements to the patent office, such as rejecting obvious patents. Except you can't easily fix that, whereas

I'm the author. Yes, there are other suggested improvements to the patent office, such as rejecting obvious patents. Except you can't easily fix that, whereas substituting 20 by 7 is something that can be done by your average lawmaker. Regarding China: you must have misinterpreted what I was saying. I pointed to China as an example of what would happen if we dropped patent protection completely. Indeed, China doesn't care much about patents currently, and it's not a world I want to live in.