A million-dollar drug
The point of the patent system is that we are giving inventors a time-limited monopoly on their invention in exchange for them sharing it with the world. We all benefit because we have access to this new invention and soon can make it ourselves, and the inventor has an incentive to promote and sell as much as they can while they own the monopoly.<p>But it&#x27;s not working here. The patent holder is effectively saying society isn&#x27;t allowed to have the invention. They&#x27;re using a legal means meant to share the knowledge with the world to instead horde it away from the rest of us.<p>When the system doesn&#x27;t work, the system must be improved. How can we incentivize inventors to not do this?