> Why? If you invent something, wouldn't you want to protect what is yours? Would it be > OK with you if someone made your product stealing your profits when you did the R&D?
No, that part is fine. What's broken is that patents are granted for things that are trivial or obvious, or that have tons of prior art. They don't get overturned, because it's too expensive to litigate, and they eventually get bought up by patent trolls who basically use them for legalized extortion.