In Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc., 489 U.S. 141, 109 S.Ct. 971, 103 L.Ed.2d 118 (1989), the Supreme Court reviewed a Florida statute prohibiting the use of a "direct molding process" to recreate the boat hull designs of others and creating a civil cause of action against anyone who knowingly sold a hull so duplicated. Id. at 144-45, 109 S.Ct. at 974-75. The Court reiterated its holdings in Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co., 376 U.S. 225, 84 S.Ct. 784, 11 L.Ed.2d 661 (1964) and Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U.S. 470, 94 S.Ct. 1879, 40 L.Ed.2d 315 (1974), pointing out that in those cases, "state protection was not aimed exclusively at the promotion of invention itself, and the state restrictions on the use of unpatented ideas were limited to those necessary to promote goals outside the contemplation of the federal patent scheme." Id. at 166, 109 S.Ct. at 985. Thus, because the "Florida statute was aimed directly at the promotion of intellectual creation by substantially restricting the public's ability to exploit ideas that the patent system mandates shall be free for all to use," the Supreme Court struck down the statute as preempted by the federal patent laws. Id. at 167, 109 S.Ct. at 986.