It is proven that the pluralism of opinions regarding intellectual property should determine specific proposals for strengthening the position of the Russian Federation as a leading state in the “intellectual space”, ensuring appropriate interaction with new countries and, in fact, entire continents (the article analyzes African intellectual property organizations). Work of a number of Russian civil law scholars on the topic under study led to the initiation of the procedure for legislative changes in the understanding of the specifics and forms of corresponding legal protection and defense by representatives of the Parliament of the Russian Federation in 2025. The assertion is substantiated with specific examples that only an approach based on the Russian awareness of the importance of "patent law protection" (the term in the draft law) and the expansion of its scope of application will create (in the existing conditions of the "activity of unfriendly jurisdictions" and aggressively minded "unions") conditions for rapprochement and, possibly, in the long term, legal cooperation with organizations for the protection of intellectual property (the "African", OAPI, and the "African Regional", ARIPO, respectively), and other similar associations of structures in the long term.