The Constitution grants all individuals the right to obtain and commercialize patents regardless of race, gender, or economic status. This inclusive policy has engendered the culture of innovation core to the ‘American Dream,’ and has allowed countless inventors to create livelihoods based on their own ingenuity.

However, today’s U.S. patent system is increasingly misaligned with its original purpose. As the country has evolved socially and culturally, channels that provide broad access to innovation have eroded. Inventors without access to capital cannot take their invention to market, a condition that impacts women, people of color, and other marginalized communities especially.

The Fair Inventing Fund is a nonprofit advocating for the rights of underrepresented independent inventors. The process of securing, commercializing, and protecting patents today is more capital intensive than ever before. This poses barriers to entry for those without access to capital, a condition that disproportionately impacts women, people of color, and people living in geographic and socioeconomically deprived areas, and disincentivizes them from engaging with the patent ecosystem.

Our mission is to highlight and remedy injustices within the U.S. patent ecosystem so that independent inventors are rewarded for their ingenuity and incentivized to contribute to the American tradition of innovation.