'California is looking at our backside,' Texas Gov. Rick Perry says in San Francisco

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94. One issue I had with your citation that's not mentioned anywhere

is how many of those patents are put into production. It's one thing to make a patent, and quite another to actually produce something with it.

You also seem to have ignored a rather important part of your Forbes citation:

Indeed, individuals of all backgrounds may play more of a role in keeping the U.S. on the cutting edge. While roughly 90% of patents granted go to corporations, universities, nonprofits and state governments, individual inventors, as a group, rank in the top three patent recipients for the 14 of 15 most patent-prolific states. That fraction may increase as large firms cut back on R&D to conserve cash.

That part alone negates your whole argument bashing those of us in Texas and other "red" states. I noticed, too, you didn't say anything about that map of the US I posted. Perhaps because it shows there's truly no such thing as a "red state"?