“[Li] knows CE is needed to make Liquidmetal a worldwide success.”
When you said Liquidmetal, did you mean the company or BMG?
In either case, it doesn’t make sense for Li to have invested in LQMT. He is now the majority shareholder in a company, which based on your thesis, cannot be successful because Apple controls all of the IP in the field of CE. So, if your thesis is correct, then (IMO) he would not have invested in LQMT because he wouldn’t have been able to make the company successful.
Similarly, there is no reason for him to have invested in order to get the cross licensing agreement. The cross licensing agreement excluded CE. So, if your thesis is correct, the cross licensing agreement didn’t provide any benefit to Eontec because the licensed IP won’t be successful in non-CE Fields.