The H1B is a bit of a hack for that situation. Let's leave aside qualifying for EB-1 or O-1 as my sibling commentors suggest. At a slightly lower level, what we'd really want to do to fix the problem you identify is to unclog the EB-3 backlog and especially the country specific EB-2 backlogs.

Employment based categories are only allocated 140,000 permanent visas a year (some of which are taken for NACARA catch-up).

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy...