That's ad absurdum. The current statute is "anything under the sun that is made by man". That is pretty broad, but even that drastically reduces what can be patented, because you'll notice the number of things that could be described by a physical process is infinite, but an infinitesimal fraction of those is made by man. An even smaller fraction of that is useful and novel. I guess it's just my opinion, but the current theory captures the intent of the patent system just fine, though the implementation can use a little tuning.
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That's ad absurdum. The current statute is "anything under the sun that is made by man". That is pretty broad, but even that drastically reduces what can be patented, because you'll notice the number of things that could be described by a physical process is infinite, but an infinitesimal fraction of those is made by man. An even smaller fraction of that is useful and novel. I guess it's just my opinion, but the current theory captures the intent of the patent system just fine, though the implementation can use a little tuning.