> if this will lead people to spam the patent office with low quality inventions hoping something will stick and help them secure a EB-1 visa. Not much really.

> if this will lead people to spam the patent office with low quality inventions hoping something will stick and help them secure a EB-1 visa. Not much really. The reason being it is already happening as incredibly common thing for last few decades or maybe even longer. I have seen many fine researchers at workplace like you mentioned above.