Taking a rights based approach to patents is not the right one, we should look at outcomes instead. Independent inventors rarely seek patents and their best be

Taking a rights based approach to patents is not the right one, we should look at outcomes instead. Independent inventors rarely seek patents and their best bet to contest the patent is to sell it to a patent troll, companies tell their employees to never read patent filings to not be willfully infringing and truly novel patented ideas are simply avoided until the patent expires or alternative methods are found (eg ECC crypto). I'm sure you can find some cases where patents have served as a social good, but I expect them to be outweighed by all their negative outcomes.