If the patentee excessively expands his patent right, the patentee would be able to manipulate the patent system as a mean to increase his own monopoly power and suppress competition in the market. In order to prevent the abuse of patent rights and protect patent policy, the patent misuse doctrine has evolved from U.S. common law. Over decades of development, a great amount of patent misuse cases accumulated in legal practice. The patent misuse doctrine was initially designed to limit the overexpansion of the contributory infringement theory and has no relationship with competition law. The essential factor to constitute patent misuse is that the patentee extends the patent monopoly over the statutory scope of his patent right. Nevertheless, in pace with the Patent Misuse Reform Act of 1988 and the conversion of the legal practice, the patent misuse doctrine has begun to intertwine with competition law's "rule of reason" analysis. Gradually, many disputes have emerged such as how to determine whether the patentee's behavior constitutes patent misuse in specific cases, or whether the patent misuse doctrine itself is necessary to exist. Therefore, it is high time to conduct a comprehensive review of the patent misuse theory. This article will review the theoretical basis of the patent misuse doctrine, and provide insights to patent misuse issues in cases with regard to package licensing, price fixing, and non-competition agreements. This article will also submit that the patent misuse doctrine is a doctrine which both has characteristics of patent law and competition law and can compromise the interests of these two bodies of regulations. It can also reflect patent policy and grow and change with time. Therefore, it is a doctrine which should continue to exist. In addition, the principle of good faith which is encoded in article 148 of the Civil Code may be a medium to introduce the patent misuse doctrine into our legal system. Even if it is not yet introduced into our system, the patent misuse doctrine can be the guiding principle for legal practitioners to apply article 60 of the Patent Act, article 18 and article 19 of the Fair Trade Act.