The Gilmore Patent License
Patents
6/5/2000; 7:12:36 AM April 6, 2000: "Gilmore wants create what amounst to a pool of patents where the ideas are freely shared, and to do it under terms that mimic the GNU GPL."

This is the only practical answer. Reform can and should be made to the system itself, but the tech industry can't wait that many years. Setting up something like this is a Good Idea.