What a sad fucking world.
I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.
...steal them from the Americans?
You can't "steal" what wasn't valid property to begin with - even if the law likes to pretend it is valid property.
When you don't defend something like a property, profit goes out of building it. And that's the opposite of what we want to do in a capitalist society. Building intellectual property is a positive-sum thing. It makes humanity better. This is something we want to reward, make profitable.