JK Rowling was writing the first Harry Potter book as a single parent. She really needed money in order to keep the series going at first. Most people do need payment in order to be working, something that may seem obvious. In order for it to be worth it for a people or companies to put effort into creating something, they need to know that they will receive payment from those who are benefitted by their creation. Engineers inventing new products or authors with new works can charge people for using their work if they have a patent (or copyright) for that work.
Without patents, the motivation to work will quickly dwindle, even if there is a love for the product being created. What makes it even more appealing to work hard is if a person knows that a certain company is sure to purchase the patent.
Without any patents, anybody capable of reproducing a certain book or invention will reap the benefits that are due to the person who had to spend the resources necessary to creating the product. Thus productions that require research and development would be produced far less frequently.
As we strive to be good people, we meet some resistance. Much of this resistance comes in the form of simply feeling sadness and not wanting to help others. As the movie "Inside Out" teaches, sadness is not necessarily the enemy, so we need something that will help us stay focused, amidst all our emotions, on our end goal of being more like Jesus Christ so that we can live with our Heavenly Father again.
A solution is hope. We need hope that will allow us to keep working in faith. "And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you, ye shall have hope through the Atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise."
-Moroni 7:41
From what I understand in the scriptures, hope is a prerequisite to having faith, and faith motivates righteous works.
Knowing that one can get a patent is like knowing that there is hope of receiving eternal life. And knowing that someone will buy your patent once you get it is like knowing that at least God will appreciate our works dedicated to him.
I know that if we stay in the path of the gospel, God will grant us eternal life.
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