This seems like it is against the spirit of the patent system, and supporting it would be just as broken. I can get behind the thought of someone coming up with

This seems like it is against the spirit of the patent system, and supporting it would be just as broken. I can get behind the thought of someone coming up with an innovative idea, patenting it, and then selling that idea for a royalty... but someone coming up with an innovative idea and just sitting on it, while stifling other people's similar intuition? That's certainly not doing anything good for the world. It's just lining the pocket books of the idle thinker.