Tweaking NAFTA and other business-supremacy treaties is nibbling around the edges. The US needs to adopt an industrial policy and shun treaties that would conflict with one.

The author falls into a widespread confusion by using the term "intellectual property" it spreads confusion. That term does not fit the reality of the legal system, because it tries to generalize about a bunch of unrelated laws which have nothing important in common.

A few of those laws raise important moral and social issues. But each law raises different issues! If you treat them as a single topic and look for a single way to treat them, you are already headed for a bad decision.

Please joining me in rejecting the misguided overgeneralization of "intellectual property" and treating each of those laws as a separate issue.