Personally I think what you quoted is thoroughly self-contradictory. > Let's take Android An innovation that occurred in America. > So what happened once it

Personally I think what you quoted is thoroughly self-contradictory. > Let's take Android An innovation that occurred in America. > So what happened once it became a hit? Patent and copyright infringement lawsuits up the kazoo. Which have not been resolved, and even when they are will not cause Android to cease to exist. > And it's a drain on the economy too, because when the plaintiffs win, that money isn't a win for innovation The antecedent does not prove the consequent. "Losses" (smaller profits) for innovation are not inherently a drain on the economy. > That's what protection means. It means protection from innovation. It means protection from copying. And I don't see any evidence that the US is failing to innovate technologically.