[faeriechangling]

Why not just set the mandate to begin after most of these patents expire? I would really not brush off how serious of a safety problem this is, but honestly I’d rather the government either delay the implementation or buy out the patents because this is a blatant market failure of public interest that the government is well poised to address. Digit amputation incurs a public cost even in America.

[TaylorAlexander]

Patents are already a government manipulation of markets. Perhaps it wouldn’t have been a market failure if there were never any patents around it.