The bottom line: China does not respect intellectual property. This was already known 30 years ago, and it hasn’t changed today. That does not mean, however, that it should be able to get away with incorporating stolen intellectual property into domestically developed products, and then turn around and sell them on the global market.

In other words, the correct response is to challenge every IP “invalidation” in a WTO arbitration court and on the basis of compliance with existing IP-related agreements, while in addition also monitoring and pursuing legal challenges in any country where the sale of infringing products is attempted. Although this probably won’t catch every single infringement attempt, but it should curb at least the most egregious violations (for example, selling a device that performs media encoding using the HEVC codec, without a requisite license/licenses).