> Reading Vats’s book is an important step. So are efforts to empower Black and brown communities to protect their knowledge systems from Western commodification

Why this attempt to reduce people to their skin colours and to imply that non-white people are not Western? Also, what about East Asians, then?

Frankly this obsession with race and the anti-Western trope is offensive and, in fact, racist and the attempt to pass off patent systems as racist is plain bullshit.