Then [takings clause] have the public to buy them out.
Patent rights are not a matter of natural law but a granted privilege.
Congress determines the scope of IP rights and they should put a stop to this excessive patent granting. There is absolutely no reason to use imminent domain which is for real property, not intellectual property.
These patent holders didn't invent the genes any more than I did and they shouldn't be allowed to gene-squat.
I support Genomic Research and Accessibility Act to ban the practice of patenting genes found in nature.