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By centering Black women inventors and letting the silences fill with whispered stories, this Article upends our understanding of the patent archive as an accurate record of U.S. invention and reveals powerful truths about the creativity, accomplishments, and patent savviness of Black women and others excluded from the status of “inventor.” Exposing the patent system as raced and gendered terrain, this Article argues that marginalized inventors participated in invention and patenting by situational passing.

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