[WaybackMachine] Excerpt from Children's Health Defense: The Bayh-Dole Act allowed NIAID and government scientists like Fauci to directly profit from drug development.Under the law, NIAID was now allowed to file patents on the new drugs that their research was creating, and then license those drug patents back to pharmaceutical companies.
Individual government scientists could also put their names on patents and collect royalties.
This created a new income stream for Anthony Fauci: royalties on the sales of all drugs developed through NIAID-funded research.
Patent Ownership and Federal Research and Development (R&D): A Discussion on the Bayh-Dole Act and the Stevenson-Wydler Act....