The system of patent-granting, which confers temporary monopolies for the exploitation of new technologies, was originally established as an incentive to the pursuit of risky new ideas.

专利授予制度为开发新技术提供了暂时的垄断地位，它最初的建立是为了激励人们追求有风险的新想法。

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Reform would bring the U.S. patent system in line with the rest of the world by granting patents on a "first-to-file" rather than a "first-to-invent" basis.

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