Boost Minnesota’s economy, free up inventions Robert Nepper Every Minnesotan has an excellent opportunity right now to be patriotic and boost our state’s economy by urging their state lawmakers to co-author and support passage of the proposed, no-cost, Creative Freedom Act (SF 452/HF755). This powerful measure promises to provide millions of dollars worth of new business and thousands of new jobs (at no cost to our taxpayers) by simply requiring employers to use or return blocked employee inventions. It promises such fantastic results by replicating the process which spawned a $50 billion entirely new xerographic industry creating 500,000 new jobs! (Wall Street Journal, May23, 1989).