When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago, they devised a unique way to keep their young nation on the cutting edge of scientific progress. They agreed "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." In other words, people producing new ideas were assured that they would benefit from them, through a patent system that was created soon after.
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