I honestly believe you're wrong here. There's no exclusion for not profiting from your unlicensed use of a patent, you're infringing regardless of how you use i

I honestly believe you're wrong here. There's no exclusion for not profiting from your unlicensed use of a patent, you're infringing regardless of how you use it. Whether or not someone will sue you obviously brings into question damages and how they would collect them, but I don't believe infringing behavior is contingent on a monetary exchange. Here you go, a source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/patent_infringement https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/patent_infringement [...] one commits patent infringement by making, using, offering to sell, or selling something that contains every element of a patented claim [...]