In April 2005, Japan's Patent Law was amended. To comply with the intent of Article 35 of the law, Sharp Corporation consulted with employees before revising its in-house regulations, called the Regulations for Employee Inventions, in July 2005. The revised regulations include more detailed standards on rewarding an employee who has come up with an invention during work for the company when and after the employee reports the invention and hands over the rights to the invention to the company, which the regulations also require employees to do.

Sharp also reviewed and revised compensation systems in subsidiaries and affiliated companies in Japan according to the intent of the Patent Law, and has come up with programs that improve incentives for employees who devise inventions. Thus, Sharp has built and is promoting systems that compensate employees fairly and appropriately, depending on the contribution their invention makes to the company, as well as the contribution that each employee involved made to the invention.