You can't avoid the issue that patents aren't property. You are free to believe that patents encourage invention, but it's still government-granted monopoly, n

You can't avoid the issue that patents aren't property. You are free to believe that patents encourage invention, but it's still government-granted monopoly, not property. If patents are now more valuable to hold and sue, rather than use in product, than that's failed, and the solution is to make patents valid only when they're being used. "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." -Thomas Jefferson