If I could point to one thing other states could do to improve their economy, it would be adopt the exact language of California's anti-non-compete and the "you own your own ideas, unless developed as part of your work" law.

Not that this is going to single handedly grow a silicon valley in Montana overnight, but it has so little downside. The reason for the exact language is because if they use the exact language consciously, they effectively import the case law surrounding those laws.