Great information to generate American support for my "1% of copyrights and patents" funding proposal for public education:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm

I have found two articles that comment on the USPTO report.
The first article: http://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/foreign-patents-and-united-states-innovation.html?cid=sy01304
QUOTE: In 2013, 51 percent of the 303,000 patents filed in the U.S. were of foreign origin, according to the USPTO. That's a decrease of one percentage point compared to 2012, but about equal to the percentage of foreign patents granted every year for the past decade. To get some perspective, in 1963, only 18 percent of patents originated from foreign sources.
The second article: http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=e074e470-6b9a-44ee-bbc5-ce38f2edf078
QUOTE: In fact, the USPTO’s grant statistics from last year show that while a greater share of issued US patents went to foreign entities than in 2012, overall, US entities were granted 133,593 patents – over 12,000 more than the previous year, and the most ever issued to US applicants in a single 12-month period. Moreover, the high number of US patents being issued to non-US entities is an endorsement of the country’s patent system and the value of the assets it creates, despite the many criticisms it has received of late. The bottom line is that inventors, companies and research institutes from around the world continue to consider US patent assets as a crucial component of their IP portfolios.

My proposal and my commentary can be read at: http://steven-a-sylwester.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-deserves-macarthur-genius-award.html

PROPOSED AMENDMENT:
Re: Article I Section 8. [8]
The United States shall have one percent (1%) ownership of each and every copyright and patent issued and registered by the United States government. The ownership shall be limited to the pre-tax gross revenues generated by any and all uses of that which is protected by U.S. copyright and patent law, and all such ownership shall be without exception. All revenues earned from such ownership shall be used to fund the free public education guaranteed to citizens by law, with all revenues from patents supporting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education exclusively and all revenues from copyrights supporting either Arts and Humanities education or Physical Education and Health education exclusively according to the general categories that create the revenues (i.e. computer-related patents support computer science education, music copyrights support music arts education, sporting event copyrights support physical education, and so forth).

QUOTE from COMMENTARY: It is important to know that there are no exceptions, even U.S. copyrights and U.S. patents held by foreigners, including foreign corporations, are subject to the requirement of granting 1% ownership to the United States. If an issued and registered U.S. copyright or U.S. patent is sold from one person/corporation to another in part or in whole, the United States still maintains its 1% ownership without change. In fact, the United States cannot sell, forfeit, or cancel its 1% ownership under any circumstance, because the United States is We The People.

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How can you not like that?

If foreign corporations want to get rich selling their patented products in the United States, it is reasonable to require them to help fund U.S. public schools.

The following QUOTE is from "The first article" linked above: A number of obvious factors contribute to the overflow of foreign ideas in U.S. patents: The country has a vast consumer population, and its staggering $17 trillion gross domestic product is the biggest market in the world, so it makes sense that entrepreneurs want to file patents here.

My proposed amendment is the answer.

Steven A. Sylwester