On Thursday, President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping — a meeting many observers expected to be tense given the situation in North Korea, as well as each leaders' commitment to strengthening their respective countries' positions in the world. The president and his team are no doubt also aware of China’s moves to supplant the U.S. as the leader of innovation and even patent protection. Unfortunately, this ambition coincides with our own actions to weaken patent protection in America.