[SauronOfMordor]

The bottom line is who makes the lion share of the profit, the owners of the ideas or the manufactures of other peoples ideas. I think there is strong evidence of the former.

When other people make your ideas, soon they won't be your ideas. Good luck retaining control of your intellectual property

[DB]

It greatly depends on what you make. Some things are pretty easy to protect and others are not. Either way anything that they can steal they will steal regardless of where it was made.

Everything that is patented is made public for anyone that has no scruples to steal. China and others can use it as a how-to technical library online... Patents include everything from how things work to how to manufacture them.

The idea that somehow not making things overseas will protect it from theft is false.