Conspiracies aside, what about global IP issues? These days, anything from game software to hardware are easily duplicated by anyone skilled enough around the world. Let's focus on games - like HTML5 games. Does anyone have any experience about issues with game rippers who live beyond the reach of US law / influence? I'm talking about game devs who think that X game is good, easy to rip, and translate to a mobile platform because the game is a Flash game at the moment. And it's the game rippers live in a place that's beyond the reach the law protecting the original copyright holders, ex: China. There's an issue where you make a product first, but a copycat can claim they made the first "type" of product where they live in, such as the company who tried to pull their fake "iPhone 5" as the first company to have such a product in China well before Apple's official launch.
I mean, if we factor in the different laws around the world, is there a possibly of being sued by a copycat in their own country because they can simply try to screw you over your own product?