Play the lottery with your mind!

Ever had an idea that made you think, “How does nobody do this already?”

Maybe you sketched it on a napkin. Maybe you built a prototype in your garage. Maybe you figured out a better way to do something that millions of people do every day.

And then you wondered:

“Could I actually do something with this?”

The problem is that the traditional path to protecting an invention can be expensive, complicated, and intimidating—especially if you're an independent inventor without a company, a patent attorney, or a pile of money behind you.

What if the little guy had a place to be heard?

That's the idea behind Universally Thinking.

The U.S. patent system is built around concepts like novelty, prior art, and non-obviousness. An invention generally cannot receive a valid patent if it isn't genuinely new, and a claimed invention can be rejected or found invalid when it is already disclosed in the prior art or would have been obvious to someone skilled in the field.

Yet finding what has already been invented—and proving when an idea was publicly disclosed—can be surprisingly difficult.

Universally Thinking wants to change that.

Give the unknown inventor a voice.

We're creating a public place where anyone can publish an invention, concept, design, solution, or idea and establish a visible, dated record of having publicly disclosed it.

No venture capital required.

No corporation required.

No famous name required.

You don't have to be a Silicon Valley startup or a Fortune 500 company to put an idea into the world.

You just need an idea worth sharing.

By building a searchable public history of inventions and ideas, Universally Thinking can help create a richer record of what people have already thought of, built, proposed, and shared.

And that matters.

Because if an idea was already publicly disclosed, that disclosure may become relevant when determining whether a later patent claim is actually new or non-obvious. U.S. patent law specifically recognizes certain inventor-originated public disclosures within a one-year grace period, although the rules are technical and depend on the circumstances.

Your idea could be worth something.

Think of Universally Thinking as playing the lottery with your mind.

You can spend your entire life buying lottery tickets hoping to get lucky...

Or you can put your ideas into the world.

Most ideas won't make you rich.

Most won't become companies.

Most won't change an industry.

But one might.

And for the first time, the person with the idea doesn't necessarily have to be the person with the biggest budget.

One important warning

Publishing an invention on Universally Thinking does not give you a patent or automatically give you exclusive ownership of the invention.

That’s powerful: a clear, dated public record of your idea can become part of the prior art. If someone later tries to patent the same concept, your earlier disclosure may help show that the idea was already out in the world—and that can make it harder for them to claim it as exclusively theirs.

In other words, posting here isn’t just sharing. It’s a way to put a stake in the ground for what you thought of first. (It still isn’t a patent or legal advice—if you want formal patent protection of your own, talk with a patent attorney or patent agent—but for many inventors, making the idea visible is how you stop it from being quietly taken.)

Universally Thinking isn't here to promise that your idea will make you rich.

We're here to make sure the idea you had isn't invisible.

Think it. Own it. Publish it.

Play the lottery with your mind.