United Inventors Association Recognizes Inventors on National Inventors Day

Feb. 9, 2012 - PRLog -- As inventors are recognized February 11 on National Inventors Day, the United Inventors Association of America (UIA), the nation’s largest non-profit inventor education group, reminds inventors that education is the key to successful commercialization of any invention.  

An estimated 2 million people annually pursue their dreams of creating the next big idea, according to the UIA.

“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had a great idea,” says UIA Executive Director Mark Reyland.

But inventors must take time to learn about the process of taking an idea from the shower to the store shelf. The UIA holds educational workshops across the country, makes educational programs and information available on its website, supports almost 100 inventor clubs around the country and offers daily information through its blog and LinkedIn Group – all as part of a 27-year tradition of providing free inventor education programs to the industry.  

“Inventors do great things every day,” Reyland says. “Their passion to find new, creative and exciting ways to help mankind is what makes our world continue to evolve while creating jobs and solving problems for society. Every item we come in contact with in the course of our day started in the mind of an inventor.”

In the excitement that can accompany an idea, Reyland says inventors forget that educating themselves about the process often means the difference between success and failure. For example, the UIA encourages inventors to begin by asking themselves three simple but important questions.

1.   Will my product work?
2.   Will anyone care that it does?
3.   Will enough of the people who care be willing to pay money for your solution to their problem?

Inventors lose millions of dollars annually because they do not educate themselves on the inventing process, Reyland says. Decisions sometimes have tragic impacts on inventors and their families, including bankruptcies and broken relationships. Although the toll inventors pay is very real, it can be avoided with the proper information.  

Since first being enacted by Ronald Regan in 1983, National Inventors Day has been held annually on February 11, Thomas Edison’s birthday, as a way of reminding the country about the impact the hundreds of thousands of independent inventors working in sheds, basements, universities, labs and corporations around the nation have on our future.

Reyland said inventors should remember Edison’s words as they begin the inventing process.

“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent,” Edison said.


About the United Inventors Association of America

With over 12,000 active members, the United Inventors Association of America is the largest non-profit inventor association in the world. The UIA’s mission is offering educational outreach and commercial opportunities to inventors and certification to local inventor groups and invention service providers who comply with UIA professional and ethical standards.

Visit http://www.uiausa.org for more information.

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