With more than 200 paid-up members, the Houston Inventors Association is by far the largest inventors group in America. Worldwide, the city of Houston ranks fifth in inventiveness, surpassed only by four Japanese cities. Since our beginning in 1983, HIA has become one of the strongest voices in America for the independent inventor, but we also include academic and corporate innovators.

"Education, Assistance, and Networking for the Inventor" - By helping others with this thing called a "patent", we share and learn, with your ideas and our ideas, we offer privacy, testimony and witness, trust, confidentiality (don't trust anyone), respect, experience, successes and failures, and in turn the result the NIA help's this world one inventor at a time....

IANE, founded on July 28, 1977, is a group of inventors having a common interest in helping fellow inventors get

The RMIA, formed in 1978 as the Rocky Mountain Inventors Congress, is a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping people with new ideas achieve their greatest potential.

The Association of Hungarian Inventors (MAFE) was refounded in 1989. Between 1945 and 1989 the inventors in Hungary did not have any organisation.
The Association is a member of the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA).
MAFE has five thousands member.