They keep adding to our burden, like adding audits. Programs like ATP are in every other country. The U.S. cannot withstand the way foreign governments fund research within their countries. A number of companies contrasted U.S. and foreign methods of fostering technology development leading to commercialization. Other countries have much more effective mechanisms for doing this.
Foreigners have much closer cooperation between industry and the research world.
Other countries take our manufacturing ideas and go home and implement them. The comments of another participant were strikingly similar. We reward impractical research. We invented the VCR, but there's not one produced in this country. This is because we don't hold in high esteem taking the invented product and putting it into practical use.