This study explores the impact of three patterns of paternalistic leadership (benevolence leadership, moral leadership and authoritarianism leadership) on employee innovation behavior in Chinese context, and direct, interact and mediating impact are analyzed based on the data collected from 312 employees. The research results demonstrate: benevolence leadership and moral leadership have positive impact on employee innovation behavior; authoritarianism leadership has negative impact on employee innovation behavior; and the interaction between moral and benevolence leadership also positively influence employee innovation behavior .In addition, psychological empowerment plays a partial mediating role in the impact of benevolence leadership and moral leadership on employee innovation behavior, and plays a full mediating role in the impact of authoritarianism leadership on employee innovation behavior.