I didn't think the article said or implied that at all. If anything, the author suggested that Wright's claims were dubious by outlining the exhausting history quite well. The article gently questions what impacts, if any, patents and IP could have over open sourced projects. I've read articles by this author before, I think he wrote the one of Nostr. The headline is a bit vague so I can see how it reads like that. Here's a pay wall removed link: