A. I advocate abolishing patents. Some type of temporary protection would need to be provided for the very rare exceptional case of the development of new drugs

A. I advocate abolishing patents. Some type of temporary protection would need to be provided for the very rare exceptional case of the development of new drugs. I can think of very very few, if any, cases where 21st century patents have actually contributed to "progress in the useful arts". Instead, they are universally a drag on people who actually produce things of value. B. People may point to an exception case here and there, but the proverbial small inventor with a patent is a thousand times more likely to have his life savings eaten up by lawyers than to actually get paid for a useful invention. I don't think an improved patent system is actually going to help the small inventor. C. This particular law looks to me like it further enhances large companies' ability to kill off smaller competition. I don't think that there is a contradiction here.