As others have said, this is nowhere near the standard outside of the US. Personally, I consider this "industry standard" pretty gross and touching on some very

As others have said, this is nowhere near the standard outside of the US. Personally, I consider this "industry standard" pretty gross and touching on some very uncomfortable topics like wage slavery. Your employer should not own your ideas and it should not matter where you got them. A no-compete clause is the much more reasonable solution a company can use to protect itself from flagrant violations of trust.