A strong patent enforcement system is favored by many as encouraging to growth and development
USPTO, Report to Congress Patent eligible subject matter: Public views on the current jurisprudence in the United States June 2022 https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTO-SubjectMatterEligibility-PublicViews.pdf
Noting the integral role patents play in fostering the dissemination and advancement of technologies, one association representing IP owners explained that patents allow “others to stand on the shoulders of those who have invented before them.”245 A university’s patenting and licensing organization further explained that patents “are the best method to balance the public dissemination of information that academic freedom demands with the scientific controls that successful technology commercialization requires.”246 One nonprofit organization dedicated to natural products expounded that not only do patents provide technical data that are often used as the basis for incremental improvements but also “[w]ithout patents and the possibility of their enforcement, knockoff dietary supplements can (and will) proliferate the market” such that patent rights can facilitate product quality control, public health, and safety measures. 247 In addition, a national IP bar association noted that the data provided in patents facilitate faster developments and commercialization of new innovative products: “Patent protection has always been essential to encouraging earlier and broader disclosure of innovations, which not only helps to accelerate innovation by incentivizing alternatives but also makes it easier to commercialize innovation through investment and business transactions.”