What recently happened in the automobile industry that exemplifies the idea that "we need to value more the creation of ideas instead of the protection of them"?
the answer to this question is Tesla released all their patents to help the electric car industry . By releasing the patent, now Tesla has opened up a chance for other experts to analyze Tesla's design and imporve the chance of new discovery for that certain product. This will definitely make a lot of potential improvements for electric cars in the future even though Tesla will not has the sole ownership of it.