I think patent, law and such things are for governments. But Cryptography especially Bitcoin is Peer to peer network. That means its decentralized. No one control it. Even government too.

But government understand importance of blockchain and start to implement it.

The first thing is very important thing is currency can also be exchanged directly already impact all over world in last 8 years.

In future blockchain is in phase to check possibilities can be used for administration by government or Corporate.