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Roleigh Martin

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Jul 13

AI helped me prove there is highly successful, widespread hidden war against expired patents.

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This has approximately doubled our cost of living & captured (willingly or by chicanery) 100% of all legislators!

This issue strikes at the heart of a vision our Founding Fathers enshrined in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that patents "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by granting inventors exclusive rights for a limited time—initially 14 years under the 1790 Patent Act, later extended to 17, and now 20 years (except design patents at 15) —after which inventions enter the public domain to benefit society.

Thomas Jefferson, a key architect of the 1790 and 1793 Patent Acts, insisted on rigorous examination to ensure only novel, useful inventions were patented, reflecting his belief that the public should ultimately reap the rewards. James Madison reinforced this, comparing inventors’ rights to authors’ copyrights and emphasizing the “limited time” restriction as a fair exchange for societal gain.

Yet, this foundational intent has been severely eroded.

The turning point arrived within years of the 1970 Legislative Reorganization Act, signed by President Nixon on October 26, 1970. This unheralded law opened Congress to transparency but also unleashed a lobbying juggernaut. Registered lobbyists surged from 200-400 to 13,070 from late 1960s to 2024.

This shift empowered lobbyists to influence legislation, leading to regulations—framed as safety and environmental protections—that block the affordable use of expired patents, shielding big manufacturers from competition.

I explored this transformation in my X Article, “The Congressional Research Institute on how Congress became controllable in 1971,” revealing how lobbyist control has reshaped policy.

The calculator industry offers a stark contrast and a glimpse of what’s possible. In 1972, the HP-35 scientific calculator retailed for $395—equivalent to over $2,800 today—a tool reserved for engineers and scientists. When key patents, such as Jack Kilby’s integrated circuit patent (US Patent 3,138,743), expired in 1981, companies like Texas Instruments and Casio flooded the market with affordable alternatives. By the mid-1980s, prices had plummeted to under $5, a democratizing triumph now evident in any dollar store.

Yet, this price drop hasn’t extended to cars, airplanes, RVs or appliances (home and commercial).

Regulations like CAFE standards and DOE efficiency rules prevent remanufacturing expired designs. But laws are not supposed to make constitutional rights illegal!

A Grok DeepSearch simulation finds that a remanufactured version of patent-expired cars could sell for $8,000-$12,000—saving $24,000 per family. For homes, equipping with 1990s patent-expired appliances (refrigerators, dishwashers, washer/dryers) could save $10,000, factoring in upfront costs and slightly higher energy use offset by durability.

This war isn’t coincidental—it’s strategic. Lobbyists craft regulations to limit competition, ensuring high costs benefit large corporations. My AI-assisted research, detailed in the below X Article, proves this is the primary driver of America’s elevated cost of living.

Why does this highly successful hidden war against expired patents remain invisible?

Suspects include recognizing how sneaky and obfuscated the tactics used to outlaw use of expired patents, hiding behind the guise of safety and environmental protection; most of the population being so young they don’t remember when Calculators were expensive; greedy patent holders (I co-hold an AI patent but saw no personal gain, unlike some who profit indefinitely); complicit legislators or regulators swayed by lobbyists; and the media—dominated by a handful of powerful interests, including social media platforms—silent on the issue.

Grok’s Deepsearch cannot find one legislator talking about this hidden war. They are either on the take, fooled or stupid (is there a difference?).

The advertisers supporting politicians, the news and media, as well as the major law firms, they are all 100% interested in perpetuating this hidden war against expired patents!

If you define a RINO as a GOP Legislator who pretends to support the Constitution but doesn’t, this means 100% of our legislators are RINOs!

A GOP Legislator who supports the Constitution would speak out against this hidden war against expired patents but not one is!

Grok’s estimate that the taking from the Public consumer dollars is around 11 Trillion $ in the automotive industry purchases over the many decades involved.

Factor in the other industries (aviation, RVs, appliances – both commercial and residential) and the taking is multiples of that!

No other financial scandal is this big!

Aren’t you, the reader, capable of seeing that this is true?

Don’t depend on the mega X influencers to agree, they’re under the distribution control of a social media company owned by an automotive industry CEO!

If you’re not old enough to remember the price collapse of calculators between 1970 and the 1990s, ask a relative who is.

In every large town, we should see newly remade autos and trucks who were initially released in 2004 or earlier and selling under a variety of names but otherwise identical to those original vehicles and with prices starting under $8K-$12K.

But we don’t! It’s because every legislator without one exception has betrayed this fundamental right under the Constitution, the expectation that expired patents go into the public domain and benefit the public!

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Roleigh Martin

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Jun 29

Many big MAGA influencers are unaware of the total (not partial) control of Congress by lobbyists!
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Some think outlier legislators exist in Congress who are not controlled. The truth is that these outlier Representatives or Senators are duped, unaware they’re controlled.

The proof is simple. These legislators all swore to uphold the US Constitution where the public could freely benefit from expired patents as our Founding Fathers intended when they penned Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution—to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by granting inventors exclusive rights for a limited time, after which their creations would enrich society at large.

Many of these legislators should have childhood memories (or historical knowledge) of how cheap electronic calculators became once their 20-year utility patents expired. For sure, lobbyists took notice. They successfully got enacted since the 1970s a web of modern regulations, often dressed up as "beneficial and protective," that prevent us from enjoying expired patents in automotives, housing, trailers and RVs.

We should see in every large town a car dealer offering newly made cars of all patent-expired components for about $10K to $12K but such are not available because of these prohibitive laws/rules. AI shows the cost of living is nearly double what it should be. The exact laws are detailed in this X Article.

Yet, is there even one Representative or Senator speaking about this? Nope!

The Hidden War against Expired Patents is so successful it took an outlier retired system analyst using AI in X’s largest DOGE-related community, the DOGE/MAGA/MAHA Amplified! To discover and report on this scam.

Grok estimates the financial taking from consumers over the many decades is around 11 Trillion $! No other financial scandal comes close to this! The USAID discovery is pennies compared to this! But why the silence?

This proves that lobbyists are able to control the entire Congress without one exception!

They are either all sold-out or duped. It’s probably a mixture of the two. Whether crooked or stupid, what’s the difference? The average citizen has to earn twice as much money because of this!

Help me bring this awareness to a larger audience. Obviously, nobody in Congress is talking about the war against expired patents. Neither are large influencers on X are except for this community.

Most of us in America need MALA – Make American Living Affordable! Grok notes that a comfortable income for a single adult who does not own a home range from $78,790 in West Virginia to $116,022 in Massachusetts with $89,461 as the median. Owning a home makes life even more expensive. A comfortable income for a single adult owning a home is $15,000 to $20,000 higher in Kentucky (lower range) and $25,000 to $30,000 higher in Massachusetts (upper range) compared to a non-homeowner, with a median difference of $20,000 to $25,000 across states.

Contrast the above monetary needs with one’s annual income! The national median annual individual income in May 2025 is approximately $43,000 nationwide, with West Virginia having the lowest at $30,500 and Massachusetts the highest at $55,000.

How does an outlier-writer in history get the society around him or her to see things differently and cause significant improvement in society?

History shows that hard science-fiction has been most effective in the past. Hard Science-fiction conveys a future that is based on science and logic and could really happen. Fantasy science-fiction, in contrast, never gets beyond being a fantasy. Hard science-fiction portrayed the downfall of the Soviet Union before non-fiction did. Hard science-fiction envisaged the 9-11 terrorist event before non-fiction did.

This recent X Article of mine, a science-fiction novel, puts President Trump in the historical vein of US Presidents (such as Lincoln or FDR) who declared a national emergency and in an Executive Order takes dramatic action.

Then Trump would be able under those powers to enact massive deregulation and without the hindrance of lower courts. I got Grok and Claude Sonnet AI engines to help with the text and images. Grok fed me prompts to give to Claude Sonnet.

This X Article delivers this whole science fiction future reality but it states that for it to become real and affect us in our own lives, that we need between 850 and 900 readers to communicate to the White House to read this X Article. How to do this is laid out in the Article. The link to communicate to the White House is also given. Old fashioned letters get the most attention. I’ve written about this before.

The idea that physical letters get "more attention" isn’t codified in law but reflects practical dynamics: lower volume, formal processing, and human perception of effort. If your goal is impact, a physical letter could indeed have an edge in being noticed, though it’s still subject to the same staff screening as emails.

I’m going to be 100% disappointed in this community if we don’t get at least 900 letters or messages generated to the White House about this. Who wants their cost of living to be double what it should be?

Last, X has promoted my account and I now have a subscribe button on my profile page. I’ll be hosting space events for subscribers.

It would be fun to talk to some of you all and know what’s more important to you: MALA (Make American Living Affordable) or DOGE?

To me, if we focus on MALA and cut the size of government massively, that reduces the scope of DOGE and hopefully we can once again, reduce the debt, last done by Congress in 1957 (per the US Fiscal Treasury history dataset on the debt). But as the science fiction article here explains, for MALA to be amplified into Law, Congress has to revert to pre-1970 operations.

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The novel posted about has research articles underlying it, such as

https://x.com/RoleighMartin/status/1936617506203947297

https://x.com/RoleighMartin/status/1905346130835316806

Another of the underlying research X Articles:

https://x.com/RoleighMartin/status/1905346130835316806

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Roleigh Martin

@RoleighMartin

Mar 1

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I updated this X Article this morning. A Grok 3 DeepSearch asserts that pairing a legislator debt-reduction bonus with a DOGE Dividend significantly raises the odds of 60+ Senate votes for bold DOGE legislation to 55-65%.

This is a 25-35% jump from the no-incentive baseline, a 10-20% jump from the dividend alone and 15% above the bonus alone.

The bonus hooks lawmakers, the dividend hooks Democrat voters, and together they could tip the Senate into bipartisan action, especially with Trump’s DOGE momentum.

It’s not a lock—partisan thorns and optics linger—but it’s now more likely than not.

I had a long fruitful discussion with @DogeWatchReport on this X Article. I've made some changes to it as a result. I learned more things about US history doing the updates.

Did you know that in the 17 fiscal years where Congress reduced the outstanding national debt in the 20th century (last time it did such was 1957), that the reduction of the outstanding national debt was 3.53 %!

In the 59 times that Congress reduced the outstanding national debt in the 19th century, its average reduction of the debt was 12.21%!

The formula for @j_fishback 's DOGE Dividend, if it was applied to fiscal year 2024, if it enjoyed an average outstanding debt reduction of 3.53% after first erasing its projected deficit (of 1.9 Trillion$), we would see a DOGE dividend of $7984 per taxpaying household.

The article gives the link to the US Fiscal Treasury data used along with the created spreadsheet that massaged the downloaded historical debt data.

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Roleigh Martin

@RoleighMartin

Jan 23

DOGE cares about MAHA and making sure RFK is confirmed! The Robert Kennedy Jr. confirmation hearing for Cabinet Secretary of HHS is scheduled for January 29 at 10am. Some are concerned the hearings may give excuses to some Senators to vote no.

More than any other Cabinet, HHS has severely impacted human and real costs in society. I link to how massive they are in the comments but you all know this. HHS is Health and Human Services.

In Fiscal year 2023, the total proposed budget authority for all of HHS was $127.3 billion in discretionary funding and $1.7 trillion in mandatory funding.

The total economic cost of Covid-19 to the United States was estimated at around $14 trillion to $16 trillion, encompassing both direct economic losses and the monetized impact on health and life.

In terms of human life, over 1 million Americans died due to Covid-19 by May 2022, leading to an economic welfare loss of about $3.57 trillion.

The combination of these factors illustrates a profound toll on both the economy and human lives in the U.S. And this ignores the costs due to not educating our children due to school shutdowns, etc.

AI reminds us that a massive number of Billions of dollars will be lost to the Deep Medical State if RFK Jr restructures HHS to focus on health rather than making profits for them.

Things may look rosy for RFK Jr to be confirmed now but the way history shows us is during the hearings something is manufactured or distorted to justify the captured Senators voting No.

To guarantee that RFK, Jay Bhattacharya, and Marty Makary all get confirmed to their nominated offices in HHS, write your GOP senators to utilize a fallback pre-1929 Senate nominee confirmation backup strategy to pick up any reluctant votes from either Democrats who secretly want to endorse him or RINOs overly pressured by Big Pharma but would endorse him otherwise.

This pre-1929 fallback nominee confirmation voting strategy, which I call Hybrid Voting, goes into play if the candidate is rejected.

History allows the President a choice to resubmit the nominee for another vote (beyond the less desirable choices which people know about such as replace the nominee or go for a recess appointment which is hard and restrictive and curtailed for reasons given below).

This second vote can be done by legislative secret vote where no senator is able to know how any other senator voted and no senator is able to prove to anyone how they voted so as to be rewarded.

External forces (such as Democrat party leaders in this case, or Deep Medical State forces) are unable to enact retribution to any Senator because they’re unable to determine who voted how.

You may dislike legislative secret voting because of how it was misused for picking the Senate Majority Leader. That was a three-way race and that complicates any vote. It’s discussed further on. In a binary vote (Confirm or not confirm), it’s clean and protective.

It’s only to be used as a fallback remedy if RFK Jr fails on the open transparent, conventional vote. At that point, what is there to lose trying this historical option?

It’s either that or pray for a recess appointment opening or replace the nominee (not desirable here!).

This Hybrid Voting is also protective for two other HHS nominations the Senate will have to confirm: Jay Bhattacharya (NIH Director) and Marty Makary (FDA Director). Tulsi Gabbard will probably need this protective strategy the most.

You ask yourself, why are not any of the famous political players talking about this?

For one, I’m 75 and I’ve been studying Congressional Voting Protocol since I did a Master’s Thesis on it 48 years ago. We’re talking about a voting option not used since 1929. My X Article goes deep into this research, aided by multiple AI engines (I have access to 18 AI engines).

This is a voting strategy not favored by party leaders because when it is used the party leaders lose the ability to punish wayward votes because everyone is clueless about how anyone votes, the only sure thing is that there is no question about the accurate vote tally.

Again, this is only to be advocated for when the open transparent vote fails and there is now nothing to lose by doing this.

If you want to see these nominees confirmed, AI informs us it’s best to write a real physical letter to your Senators.

I’ve written 14 senators the letter shown in the image given in the comments.

Grok (X’s AI engine) says there are 29 GOP Senators in on the hearing to confirm RFK Jr. I list them in the comments. At Senate[dot]gov, it advises the following:

· Addresses for each senator can be found on the senator's website or state's web page

· The following standard address can be also be used:
The Honorable (Name)
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Writing a physical letter to your Senator can be more impactful than an email due to how congressional offices handle mail. Physical letters pass through multiple staff hands, increasing visibility and attention. Congressional offices receive fewer physical letters, making each one stand out among the high volume of emails.

These letters are often seen by more people in the office, from mailroom to legislative staff. They're perceived as more personal and sincere, potentially influencing policy more directly. Physical letters become part of the official record, which can be influential.

Emails can be easily sorted or filtered, reducing their impact. If you want your voice to be heard, write a letter; it might just make a bigger difference.

The Congressional Management Foundation and studies like those from the OpenGov Foundation highlight that physical letters often receive more personalized attention, with members of Congress sometimes being briefed on significant letters due to their perceived importance or uniqueness.

As I said above, I’ve written 14 Senators so far, I’m writing more today and tomorrow.

The letters will look like the one I wrote Senator Thune, the Senate Majority Leader (see comments).

When you write the Senators in your own State (regardless if they are a Democrat), inform them you live in their state! Don’t inform them of your party if the Senator is a Democrat and you’re not.

Let’s go that extra mile and make sure RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya (NIH Director), and Marty Makary (FDA Director), Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are all confirmed.

The others will probably be confirmed without this help, but the sooner people inform their Senators of this pre-1929 fantastic voting backup option, the sooner it can help the nominees we care about!

The letter I wrote Senate Majority Leader, Thune.

The flowchart I inserted into my letter using Microsoft Word.

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