The genesis of international intellectual property rights can be traced to the 1800s—during a world order dominated and helmed by the colonizing countries. Most frameworks for regulating intellectual property ordinarily try to limit the monopolistic rights granted to inventors over their inventions to promote creativity. In other words, these frameworks balance the economic rights of inventors with the right of society at large to access the inventions. With the advent of industrialization, there was a heightened focus on the need to protect the economics of intellectual property. Spearheaded by the west, intellectual property evolved into a trade issue, aimed at protecting the commercial interests of western corporations. The inherent political global imbalance in the backdrop of the modern international framework has facilitated the transfer of eastern resources towards the enrichment of western society in the form of legally sanctioned biopiracy. As a result, the effectuating consequences are similar to the drainage of eastern wealth during colonization. The neo-colonist roots of present-day international framework thus seems to find traces in its colonial history.