I agree. I'd assume that's a holdover from a time when innovation moved slower.

You would prefer the inventor to be basically ensured of financial destruction and disincentivized in the first place, sounds great for society.

Skill issue. That just sounds like you're bad at inventing things and running businesses.

Lots of places sell unique/novel things that are not patented, successfullyn

I'd say it might be time to talk about putting a pause on incentives to advance non-medical technologies at the moment.