Spurred by US companies who claim patent infringement by companies in China, Trump is attempting to control the ways in which one company finds out another company's trade secrets. Now this "criminality" is international, and has been committed over the centuries. I suppose it could be argued that the Englishmen who came to American shores with knowledge how to make furniture and other goods here in America rather than in England had copied the English methods of design and production of manufacturing certain goods. The point is, its up to the company to hire security personnel to assure their secret processes and formulas are not stolen by other, e.g., their competitors. And it is true that many US manufacturers would rather do business with India rather than with China companies just for reasons of secrecy in their own ways of making products and doing business.
What Trump can't control is the multitude of universities and research centers where ideas and formulas and computer code are exchanged every working day and then some. Knowledge will be shared and widely disseminated, but that does not mean that in every country A-bombs are being manufactured nor are currently being planned for production!
There's a problem, to be sure with the very notion of patents; and patent infringement is being addressed by corporations interested in keeping their ways secret and protected.
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