The laws are there to to protect American business. Once it is out there as a "Tinkertech" device, how long until someone else reverse engineers it? In our world it would be China/India involved as their laws don't necessarily care about US business laws. NEPEA is a US law, yes? Once there are Chinese knockoffs, she can sell the originals with only a small markup for the brand name Selenetech, because the law forbids the Tinkertech damaging the industry, but once regular tech is out there she can compete. She would have Armsmaster and Dragon to back her up that she released a Tinkertech product under their rules up until the knockoffs came available. End result, she gets her scanner out and in use to save lives.
As for the satellites, Blank keeps Simurgh from projecting their paths precognitively, so as long as they are kept on the opposite side of the Earth from the Simurgh, she would never notice unless she tosses something through their paths to deliberately take out a satellite she can path. The 'miss' (she wouldn't be able to path the explosion) would cause interest perhaps. Selene was planning to also make them hard to spot through technology --perhaps invisible to the eye-- as well to avoid the Blank= missing but right there in plain sight issue.