Patents are government granted monopolies. When you create monopolies on intangibilities, you get results like this, where monopoly owners do what they can to k

Patents are government granted monopolies. When you create monopolies on intangibilities, you get results like this, where monopoly owners do what they can to keep and extend their monopolies, as the framers of the Constitution anticipated. The problem is beyond one company's or sovereign nation's actions. What they're doing is likely legal, which suggests the law is the problem. The problem is a system that creates monopolies out of ideas, enforced by law.