You say that people like Doug Engelbart should benefit more from their inventions, and to achieve that we should grant patents only to individuals or non-profits.<p>But a patent for Doug Engelbart most famous invention - the mouse - was filled, and it was assigned to a non-profit (SRI, a nonprofit research institute), and yet it seems neither he nor the institute got much from it.<p>As for Alan Kay, from what I can tell, he doesn&#x27;t have a single patent with him as the inventor (which is always a person, an employer would be the assignee). So how could he benefit from your law?<p>I don&#x27;t disagree that it would be fair for inventors to benefit from their inventions, but I don&#x27;t frankly see how would your proposal actually achieve it.