If you're an employee at e.g. Google or Microsoft, the best you're gonna get for your patent is a one-time bonus of a few thousand dollars, and not a dime more.

If you're an employee at e.g. Google or Microsoft, the best you're gonna get for your patent is a one-time bonus of a few thousand dollars, and not a dime more. This reads as though these are _CIA officers_ (i.e. employees) already. This is a ridiculously generous offer by the industry standards when it comes to employees, and one that's very likely to spur real innovation. If this is also $150K _per invention_, really creative people could invent themselves beachfront mansions in Maui pretty easily.