The US patent system is a disaster.
It should be impossible to get a patent on something that is already FDA approved. It used to be that if something was "published" then that precluded it being patentable, and if it's been tossed at the FDA for approval it's certainly been published.
In any case, there are FAR too many patents issued. There are nowhere close to as many true inventions as there are patents, and most patents are for things that are trivial and obvious. The job of patent examiner should mostly consist of rapid rejections, it's unlikely that there are even a thousand things a year that are truly inventions, the vast majority of patents issued shouldn't have been.
Things that should not be patentable include:
Living things
Doing something different with something that already exists (That's not an invention)
Software
Medicine (Yep, I would just ban ALL drug patents. And for those of you who say it would stop innovation, bull. Most research is paid for with tax money in the form of grants to universities - and that's another category...)
Anything developed with public money
Designs (Yep, ban the entire 'design patent' category. And ban all protection overlap, if you patent it, you can't trademark it, if you trademark it you can't copyright it, if you copyright it, you can't patent it.)
Of course, I'd also nationalize the entire pharmaceutical industry. Nobody should make profits from medicine.
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Russia is no longer part of the civilized world.
And at this point they don't deserve to be.
Russia as a state deserves to be annihilated, perhaps then the Russian people can have peace and freedom.