I think your conflating a few different issues here. IP stealing is a problem. However, IP stealing is a little orthogonal from 1) entities in the U.S. economy

I think your conflating a few different issues here. IP stealing is a problem. However, IP stealing is a little orthogonal from 1) entities in the U.S. economy being small enough to create/take advantage of innovation and 2) entities being sufficiently small such that their 'bigness' does not create misaligned incentives that then hurts the U.S. economy in the long run. In fact, the author of this article makes zero commentary on IP theft. However, just because it's not mentioned doesn't mean that the author's points are invalid as well -- rather, all of these issues are problems that need to be addressed. (Or in other terms -- inclusive or, not XOR. :) )