Anecdotal evidence of a few patents does not rule the day because the U.S. Patent Office alone has issued over 6 million patents. I'm not even talking about other countries. U.S. companies collectively have owned millions of patents on which they rely to be what they are. The following companies would not exist in their current form if it weren't for our patent system: Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, Apple, SAP, Microsoft, and many others. U.S. pharmaceutical companies would not research and make new drugs if it weren't for the U.S. patent system. Heck, they wouldn't even exist.

The reality is that an invention in the USA is determined by the Patent Office and by the U.S. court system, not by commentary on the Internet. If you want to prove or disprove a particular invention, we have this system setup for people to go through the proper channels. It's naive to think you can make up your own Internet definition of what you think an invention is. Well, you can, but it won't matter for capitalization purposes in the real world.