I disagree. I have a firm belief in that people primarily invent things because they have an idea they just can't silence and NOT because of any future monetary

I disagree. I have a firm belief in that people primarily invent things because they have an idea they just can't silence and NOT because of any future monetary rewards. There might be individuals who can combine the two to some extent but still it appears to me that most of them would still work on their invention even without the rewards. If the great inventors of all time had been motivated by money they would probably have chosen the financial sector. Money just places its usual twist into the process of invention. With money comes the idea that an investment in money and time must in the average produce a return, and inventing just doesn't work this way. Sure it is true that your boss might want to pay you to do research if he can expect you to produce things to be patented, thus giving a company a potential source of future income. But because of the bias towards money and not towards the fundamental answers to the unanswered questions in the inventor's mind, this commonly reduces to aggressively patenting any first thing that you might in some hugely optimistic circumstances consider patentable with regard to PTO's policies. And it seems that this crap rarely brings in any money to the "inventing" company; at best it is just used as fodder in mutual settlements with other companies that have claimed similarly fucked up patents. I just have a bad, bad feeling about patents. The original idea is noble but I'm not all convinced that it has helped the humankind a single bit over the history of years.