[RKV]

It means that without enforceable patents, no technical advances can be sustained. Imagine a world where drug companies have significantly diminished incentives to develop new drugs because they cannot keep the rewards of their R&D?

[AreaMan]

It means that without enforceable patents, no technical advances can be sustained.

Agreed.

I would like those patents be developed here in America.

[Pukin Dog]

It means that without enforceable patents, no technical advances can be sustained.

Sorry, but that is nuts.

Change it to "no company that patents technology can be sustained by it" and you would be right. The technology itself marches on, regardless of what country performs the advances.

[LowCountryJoe]

It means that without enforceable patents, no technical advances can be sustained. Imagine a world where drug companies have significantly diminished incentives to develop new drugs because they cannot keep the rewards of their R&D?

A point that I wish more people understood.

But how come other countries pay so little for the drugs they get form the American drug companies? We're lucky there not screwing us as badly as they alraedy are

See how long you'd be able to run a drug company if pharmacists living in other parts of the world copied your drug formulas because they refused to pay the going drug rates.