The section you quoted only supports the claim that patents are for society - all benefits to the creators are merely to promote the progress of science, etc...

The section you quoted only supports the claim that patents are for society - all benefits to the creators are merely to promote the progress of science, etc... They merely gave congress the power to do this, like declaring war, but they didn't mandate it. Patents are broken. Fundamentally and in this implementation. We could reward those who helps society, such as inventors (regardless of who builds the invention) and the engineer who creatively gets the price down to where everyone can have one, and the manager who wrangled thousands of people to make something great, all without granting a single monopoly. Simply divide the cost of the patent office (ignore the money it collects because it's a tax on industry), and give it to the people who've made things we like/need. For more money, tax industry equivalently to the average current patent litigation burden and give that to the innovators as well. It's no less fair than what we do now, at its worst, and its upsides are tremendous.