Ideas are free.
If people have great ideas and they want to make money, then, let them implement the ideas in some kind of business, work on earning money by doing good service or making good products. If on the other hand people have good ideas and they want to prevent others from using those ideas, they are no friends of the public or the society. They are just venal and self serving. IN particular those companies who have been first to discover things that are a matter of natural science, and sit back and extract rents from the rest of the society, deserve no expenditure of public funds and police powers to collect their rents. All rights reserved.