I might point you to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution: "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and usefu

I might point you to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution: "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." They are with you on the advance, and that in the long term science and the useful arts can't be owned. But to achieve that long-term goal, they saw it as valuable to give people temporary rights to align those "personal wants" with "our collective advancements".