A note to all the independent small dreamer inventors

I don’t know if anyone will take the time to read this unless maybe you are bored with nothing to do but if you do read it please excuse my context sometimes conjuring up words is difficult for me especially when they are memorialized in writing such as I am doing now.?

I might also add about my writing skills many of my friends have demonstrated enormous patience and have learned to forgive my dyslexia and having a short attention span which is a severe handicap that I have had to learn to overcome.?

Having said that I might also add those very mental challenges that have helped me to become who I am today, a downright stubborn American Indian Inventor that happens to be a business junkie, Innovator with over 100 patents worldwide. And has generated $billions worldwide and created a new job industry that hires millions of people today which I am very proud of.?

I am not the kind of person that goes around beating my chess to get recognition, that is something I don’t do and have never done. My recognition comes from my scorecard in my bank account and the donation for charities and individuals it has helped being an inventor.

I stopped inventing around 2013 two years after the Smith-Leahy American Invent Act Bill “AIA” was passed it took me that amount of time to figure out what Senator Lamar Smith of Texas and Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont allowed to be done our once proud patent system. Before AIA was passed I was lucky to get a precursor of the purposed AIA Bill in 2010 while being the Chairman of the Native American Inventors Association asking for an NAIA endorsement.?

After reviewing the key changes it seemed straightforward, the first to file versus the first to invent! I thought sure makes sense. Then I was told there was going to be a period of two years where the public will be able to assist in the patent office providing insight on prior art on pending patents that was published which would provide a better QA system for us, and a panel would be set up to help the QA process. It’s simple if someone knew of prior patents out in the public that looked like the patent was filed they could file an appeal notify the Patent Office.?

That seems fine to me better quality patents I thought speed up the court on any infringement. However, what was passed was not even close to what was pitched.?

It didn’t take long to figure out which was very apparent to me that big tech lobbyists slipped in the 11th hour and changed the whole landscape of our patent system.?

The AIA bill changed the first file from the first to invent, but it would also create the first to kill then steal by big Tech. Instead of a two-year appeal process period during the patent-pending period, it went the life of the patent. This obviously meant big tech lobbyist money changed it at the 11th hour to go from two years to the life of the patent 20 years! This means the patent can be contested by anyone for the life of the patent and that the contestant only has to file a complaint which costs approx. $15 to 50K and the inventor has no choice they have to defend it and it cost a min of $250K!. I don’t know about you and how much money you might have but for a guy in the garage or a person who went from the kitchen table, this is a dream killer. Which has decimated our patent system and by the way minimized our constitutional rights to ownership for the inventor.?

Anyway, last week I happen to sit in a video conference of Inventors and heard a panel of people which almost all of them had tragic human intreats stories about how their patents were circumvented and stolen. How each of their stories all seems to say they were mislead by our patent system and the constitution of the United States. After hanging up I sat and thought about how tragic it was to listen to their stories and the thousands of other inventors out there who have the same story of their dreams being heartlessly crushed while watching their ideas and property stolen.?Then I thought how lucky I was to have had my inventions before the AIA was signed.

I am not a poetic person that can make words sing enough to put light on to a cause that helps makes the pain better. But being an Indigenous American who is used to seeing and hearing how the US Government can crush people's dreams and livelihood is in ingrained in our culture and our history and something we understand very well.?What I would like to say to all the dreamers is please have faith we can work together to stop the dream stealing.. The Native American Intellectual Enterprise Council supports all the innovative dreamers…. ?

The American People Need to understand that our Patent System which built this country today is broken and small independent inventors need your help and activism to get awareness out to all Americans call you congressman and senator please support the little guy….. retract the AIA before its too late…?