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.
Maintaining monopolies through artificially raising the barier to entry for their competition (patents) is the exact opposite of capitalism.