You not working on them is entirely different than Google not working on them AND the looming threat of a Google patent lawsuit preventing anyone else in the country from working on them too.
"...and if I were the CEO of a company, I would abstain from deploying that company's resources in this fashion."
Including Google. If I were the CEO of Googe, I would do this.
Don't avoid the question. In your mind, does this statement provide sufficient evidence to prove that I obviously intend to work in the interests of whichever country my ancestors immigrated from?