The main purpose of patents is to buy out people who invent stuff that would help humanity, patent it and never release it to the public. One day the public will reinvent it after the patent runs out but who knows how those things go.
The other thing is they patent biological weapons against humanity. Why?
They also buy out certain words they claim to be "intellectual property". They even have one out on the Happy Birthday song so if anyone uses it in a film they make, they can sue that person.
The end goal is to bar humanity from progress and the excuse is that its to protect the inventor. They claim the inventors would never make inventions if there was no incentive. And yet, there is an incentive. The incentive it to help all of humanity advanced because when all of humanity advances, the inventor advanced too as he is a part of humanity.
Literally nobody would believe innovation would exist without a profit motive.
There is a profit motive. If the entire world runs better on free energy, for example, everyone wins including the inventor. Plus that opens up tons of opportunities as such an inventor would quickly become famous.
This just sounds like communism. The idea of societal benefit doesn't work when things take a long time to create.
Also Happy Holidays Agent Smith!