Yes, if you somehow get a patent for the wheel then you will be free to sue every tire manufacturer in existence, and you will win, or be paid out of court, every time, so long as that patent is valid. Or assassinated, that's a possibly morbid outcome of basically taking on the world. Eventually, weeks, maybe months later (they'd be under especially huge pressure to dismiss such a grossly incorrectly granted patent, maybe even days) your patent will be reviewed and thrown out, but during the time between your initial request for an injunction and when the patent is removed (and it would absolutely be removed as quickly as the system could allow) you reap the royalties. That's assuming someone actually is fool enough to give you the patent for the wheel. People have tried and failed, thankfully. Most of the time, a generic application is rejected from the beginning, exactly as it should be.
Modern technology is not a wheel. Obvious patents in software and electronics, and sometimes even simple hardware, are granted all the time because the people granting the patents either do not understand the technology well enough or are in a rush to get it finished and don't pay as much attention to it as they should, thus it looks novel to them at the time. I've already given you several examples you can investigate. If this were not the case, that frivolous patents on generic designs were never issued, then there would be no case of any patent being found to have been incorrectly awarded. And when they are awarded, you need to prove to a judge that previous art exists, that the patent should not have been awarded, before a review even begins. With the wheel there is thousands of years of prior art, it's so obvious even the most ludite of judges can recognize it. Try explaining the difference between your MP3 decoding technology and someone else's patented MP3 decoding technology to someone who has trouble understanding their VCR, and you are looking at a difficult fight.
