Companies should not be going around offering bonuses to employees for ideas of things to patent. This is a flaw in the system. If you don't have the know-how

Companies should not be going around offering bonuses to employees for ideas of things to patent. This is a flaw in the system. If you don't have the know-how to implement something, can you really call yourself the inventor of that thing? Inventors should be able to create prototypes, and if they're small-time maybe they can form a startup and gain investments.