DID YOU KNOW? for August 11 – 24, 2026

“American innovation has been fueled by immigrant inventors – without immigrants and the influx of knowledge brought by them to our country’s shores, American innovation and the overall economy would look nothing like it does today. Simply put, foreign immigration fuels American innovation.

"Immigrants often have science and engineering degrees, or they attend U.S. universities to further their educational dreams, and immigrants obtain patents at twice the rate of native Americans, according to the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates.

"While the United States isn’t the world’s largest destination for foreign immigrants, we do take in 57.1 percent of the world’s inventor community, according to statistics reported from the World Intellectual Property Organization. Moreover, a report from the bipartisan Partnership for a New Economy found that in 2011, 76 percent of the patents earned by the top 10 patenting American universities listed a foreign inventor."

Excerpts from article by Steve Brachmann Freelance Columnist, IPWatchdog.org