The US Supreme Court argued in a recent ruling that “the current patent regime threatened to stifle the sort of creativity that the Founding Fathers had originally created the system to foster. Courts have been upholding patents for technologies or designs that didn’t need them, that would have been developed in the ordinary course’ of events. In doing so, they have allowed bogus inventions to steal business from legitimate ones, and discouraged true innovation. To correct this, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for patent applicants to claim that they’ve actually invented something, while also making it easier for older patents to be challenged.