The patent system was created for individuals to create and demonstrate ideas to those with production capacity to pay the inventor for the use of their intellectual property. Now we have global/multi-national corporations collecting IP from public universities and their own R&D organizations. This is connected to the venture capitalist and startups as well.
The whole system has been captured by non-person entities and turned against those it was intended to protect.
Many of us call this "The Deep State" or "The Administrative State".