"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.... At times we can consider ourselves a small think tank and group of pioneers, performers, doers, testers, bit twiddlers, thinkers, engineers, socializers, reporters, farmers, business owners, leaders, and denizens, etc.