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I know a petroleum jobber who was licenced to formulate petroleum products who came up with a lead replacement additive right after the lead ban took effect.  The EPA soon realized that what he had done was to use the old stock lead additive he had left over when the ban took place, and did some creative advertizing to get rid of it.  He sold it as a "lead-free" additive.  Except it was concentrated tetra methyl lead.  And the customers loved it because it worked really well.  They sent him a cease and desist order, but not before he made a nice nest egg.  He keeps the last bottle of the stuff on a shelf in his office as a trophy.