No, my comment applies equally to &quot;good&quot; patents. When someone invents something truly non-obvious, it is <i>still</i> usually easy to figure out by looking at the results, so the &quot;revelations&quot; in the patent application are of no value. As a society, we have no interest in giving people a monopoly over truly non-obvious inventions unless failing to do so would make the invention not happen (which is a different argument than the revelation one).