&gt; A patent includes the description of how the invention works right in the application. Consequently, if you live in a jurisdiction where you don&#x27;t fear prosecution, you can immediately clone the idea. The only way Tesla could have kept their ideas &quot;secret&quot; would have been to not patent them at all!<p>That&#x27;s exactly why SpaceX doesn&#x27;t patent their technologies; the actors who would copy them are orgs they can&#x27;t sue (nation states).