I mean no not at all - patents are legal tools that can be skirted around just like anything else. If people don't respect the patent and produce things with i

I mean no not at all - patents are legal tools that can be skirted around just like anything else. If people don't respect the patent and produce things with it, your recourses are lawsuits - patents aren't stopping chinese manufacturers from exploiting patents from the US. And for something this important, I can even imagine governement making some kind of "public good" patent for things that are too influential - where the compensation is pre arranged and reasonable.