Americans did that for decades, British for centuries
It is a bit of a let he who is without the sin of the fathers scenario.
Everyone who eats pasta or ice cream is dining on stolen IP.
Dominant cultures in every age have historically stolen the physical and technological treasures of the previous great cultures that they either defeated or arose to overthrow. The Romans did it, Alexander the Great, the Assyrians, Egyptians, the Spanish, etc. truth is we are all fairly much equally standing on the shoulders of all previous great cultures and not all of it was won freely.
You can trace the thread of civilisation back through to the rise of the first early great river cultures along the Ganges, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Nile, the Yangtze and the Yellow River where much of early development of civilisation arose from and included is plenty of raiding and sacking of other cultures as an unfortunate right of passage for some.
There was a fascinating program last night on how it was a race for Russia and the Allied forces to get the greatest German scientists immediately post world war 2 with Werner Von Braun and his V2 rocket program being the one of the absolute jewels in the technological crown and so then launched the international space race.
Doesn’t make any of it right of course but taking stuff from others via espionage and stealth, by seduction or just by force (winning) is traditionally also a part of the shadow of how many great cultures ultimately arise to dominance.