New Delhi, May 24 -- India has produced many talented technology experts, but several of them achieved their biggest successes abroad. One such name now gaining attention online is Gurtej Sandhu, an Indian-origin engineer from Amritsar who studied at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi and later became the seventh most prolific inventor in US history.

A viral post on X recently revived the debate around brain drain. The post said, "India trains the engineer and America files the patents. We export the inventor and we import the chip." Many users shared Sandhu's journey as an example of how Indian talent often finds better research and innovation opportunities outside the country.

Sandhu, who completed his MTech from IIT Delh...