The blame should be put squarely on the shoulders of tophatter.com. They know the quality of what is being sold and choose to look the other way for the sake of making commission and sales fees on these imitation goods. In my estimation and also the interpretation of the law this is outright FRAUD.
Inverse operations are opposite operations that undo each other. Addition and subtraction are inverse operations. Multiplication and division are inverse operations.
Hardware reverse engineering involves taking apart a device to see how it works. For example, if a processor manufacturer wants to see how a competitor's processor works, they can purchase a competitor's processor, disassemble it, and then make a processor similar to it. However, this process is illegal in many countries.