You're making an extreme claim without extreme amounts of evidence to back it up.
Even if one were to buy into your claim, you ignored the further, rather critical point.
By the time the US was the size of China economically, it had already given the world a vast number of prominent contributions in the realm of technology and science. Where is China's equivalent with all that economic output?
The center of the CRISPR revolution is in Boston, not China. The center of the mRNA revolution is in the US and Europe, not China.
Even Tesla fled to the US, where he did most of his work; by intent he did not want to be in Europe. If the industrial revolution was powered by one man, it was that one and he didn't do it in Europe.
Well sometimes it's fun to rattle chains so let's continue the argument.
Tesla only moved to the US in 1884. This article is talking about events that happened 70 years before, even before the civil war, when half of the US economy was cotton farming.
You still haven't demonstrated the industry isn't based on IP theft :)
All those are more recent and I could argue they're built on an industrial base built on IP theft :)