My admittedly anecdotal evidence is I know very talented people that have left the region to avoid litigation from their former employers and start their own ventures or advance their careers. Perhaps you have a lawyer that can compete with a corporate legal team, most of us do not.
Also, we can't even type "silicon" properly :D
My non-anecdotal evidence: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/silicon-valley-keeps-winni...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/silicon-va...