Like if someone invents a product or machine or something, they pay money to get a patent to the patent office of the United States, but then where does that money go? There’s got to be trillions of dollars that has been collected if every product for sale is patented right?
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Patent fees cover the costs of running the patent office… a patent typically costs a few thousand dollars in fees to the USPTO. And that fee covers all the administration, research, legal work, etc. that has to happen to grant the patent.
Not every product has a patent… many just re-use existing patents, or don’t have patentable advances.
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