> The idea of protecting investment in innovation and allowing for public disclosure through a patent is a good thing.

That's theory and an outdated dream.

Practice is that patents are nowadays just their to defend monopolies.

They are there to be sure to atomise the concurrence which is too weak to afford an army of lawyers.

Patents are the legal version of the nuclear bomb. Nothing good get out of it, it costs to everybody a shit tons of money and you never use it for anything serious or MAD is guarantee