If India did demand such things from the US, they can get it. Lockheed was willing to give them the whole F-16 assembly line.And India understands.
So many quid pro quo orders from India to US - Howitzers, Attack heli, UCAV, Helicopters etc.
The thing is, India isn't insisting on the usual Transfer of Technology condition while placing the orders. I didn't know only Russia had the obligation to consider transferring technology. Amusing.
However it's meaningless because the capability in India isn't there. Hard to get to that level too.
You can see these issues with Rafale...
Look at Su-30MKI, decades later and they still rely on Russia for parts.
I think a lot of the "Jai Hind" have a lot of unrealistic expectation of tech transfer. PLA fans had this too in the late 90's. There's this imagination like all you have to do is send some AutoCAD files and suddenly you can just pump out airplanes or parts. You need those industrial machines, and more importantly those skilled machinists, engineers, etc.
Most PLA fans had the reckoning when they realized you can't just "copy" Al-31 by buying it and taking it apart. China didn't have the capability to fabricate the turbine blades, the software for the engine control, etc. Jai Hinds haven't evolved past this stage yet.