With the urgent need to develop solutions for the problems that the world’s population will encounter over the next few decades caused by Global Warming and ever increasing population growth, it is imperative that the generation of ideas and solutions to counter these problems are not hindered by the very laws that were originally put in place to enable the development of ideas.
The changes would also act as a catalyst to stimulate the development of ideas generally, both through the ability for more people to get involved in their development (in a similar way to how the GPL has aided the development of open source software) and also by removing the fear of possible litigation that hinders current development.
It would also prevent the ongoing wholesale transfer of knowledge and ideas into the ownership of a limited number of companies and the increased licensing (rather than sale) of items that include their intellectual Property, which further disenfranchise the general public.