Talk about ignorant... holy crap.
A patent only exists because of government. So the only way we can actually enforce patent rights globally is to have either cooperative governments or just one global government. Currently we have neither, which is why IP is turning out to be a failed endeavor in market manipulation.
Now if bfdd is also conflating IP with copyright, then I would disagree with him also, but I'm fairly sure that he is talking specifically about IP patents and not copyrighted material.