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The
Power
Mindsets
The 9 essential mindsets of successful inventors
Stephen Key and Kevin Prince
With Courtney Laschkewitsch
Every great invention starts with a simple question
“Can this be better?”
But even the best ideas can die on the vine without the right approach. Success in inventing does not start with an idea. It starts with how you think about your idea.
This book reveals the nine critical mindsets successful inventors share, giving you the mental frameworks to move faster, make better decisions, and dramatically increase your chances of success.
Think like a professional inventor
Your greatest tool is not your prototype, patent, budget, or connections. It is how you think.
The Power Mindsets gives inventors nine practical frameworks for moving faster, making smarter decisions, protecting momentum, and turning ideas into real opportunities.
The difference is a mindset
Over decades of licensing products, protecting intellectual property, building businesses, and coaching thousands of inventors, the authors noticed a pattern. People who succeed consistently share a small set of powerful mindsets. People who struggle operate from limiting assumptions.
The Power Mindsets reveals the frameworks that help innovators recognize opportunities, navigate uncertainty, overcome setbacks, make better decisions, and take meaningful action when others hesitate.
Through real-world stories, practical lessons, and hard-earned insights, you will learn how to develop the mindsets that support success in invention and entrepreneurship.
Whether you are developing your first product or your fiftieth, these mindsets can help you move ideas forward with greater confidence and speed.
What readers are saying
Reviews of The Power Mindsets book.
“The Power Mindsets provides an incredible, practical roadmap for anyone looking to overcome obstacles and turn ideas into reality. Highly recommend it to anyone needing that extra spark!”
Marc L.
“Great read. Actionable text on each page. Deserves a spot on the shelf of every innovator’s library.”
Christopher C.
“The book is awesome, covers everything an inventor needs to know step by step in great detail. Awesome work, great read!!”
Albert D.
“Become a better innovator from the inside out. Lot of great insights from three different perspectives.”
Duane B.
“Great book for inventors from beginning stage till end, step by step instructions on how to make it happen. Great read, buy now, you won’t regret the purchase!!”
Amazon Customer
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“The Power Mindsets provides an incredible, practical roadmap for anyone looking to overcome obstacles and turn ideas into reality. Highly recommend it to anyone needing that extra spark!”
Marc L.
“Great read. Actionable text on each page. Deserves a spot on the shelf of every innovator’s library.”
Christopher C.
“The book is awesome, covers everything an inventor needs to know step by step in great detail. Awesome work, great read!!”
Albert D.
“Become a better innovator from the inside out. Lot of great insights from three different perspectives.”
Duane B.
“Great book for inventors from beginning stage till end, step by step instructions on how to make it happen. Great read, buy now, you won’t regret the purchase!!”
Amazon Customer
Amazon
“I’m 65% into reading The Power Mindsets. My favorite chapters so far are ‘Relentless Experimentation’ and ‘Experiment Until It’s Undeniable.’ The chapters are about prototyping your idea(s) for legal protection and increasing the value of your product idea while protecting the interests of your licensee and yourself. I’ve spent two years learning from Stephen Key and his Co-Founder of inventRight, Andrew Krauss, and their team(s). This book increases the value I received from that education with inventRight. It really delivers the tools needed to be successful, long-term, at open innovation and beyond.”
Kevin C.
Amazon
“In order to pursue the goal of inventing, a unique set of skills is required. But what is the reason to learn those skills in the first place, and what motivates you to keep learning and applying them until a licensing deal is signed? Mindset. Mindset can easily be dismissed as ‘motivational fluff,’ but this book makes a compelling case that it comes before the technical skills. After all, those skills aren’t much use if you don’t have the persistence and perspective to keep applying them. That was the part of The Power Mindsets that resonated most with me.”
J.H.
Amazon
“Stephen, Kevin, and Courtney, the book is great! I think the ‘Resolute Mindset’ struck me most, sometimes it just takes a lot of time and effort before we see fruit. Someone once said we will be the same 10 years from now except for the people we meet and the books we read. That certainly applies to working with you and your group and reading this book.”
Gary B.
“Not to brag, but I read this book in one day. It was very good. I love reading Stephen Key books. Especially, ‘One Simple Idea,’ the Bible of inventRight. And he is the Godfather of licensing. I even suggest anyone who wants to venture, to pick this book up as well.”
Mike G.
Amazon
The 9 essential mindsets
The mental frameworks that separate inventors who succeed from inventors who stall.
Optimistic Curiosity
More than noticing a problem, it is the belief that solving it will make a difference for yourself, for others, and maybe even for the world. This mindset fuels inventors to keep going and ultimately succeed.
Relentless Experimentation
The simplest ideas often look effortless, but that simplicity is the result of countless hours of testing. A playful mindset that never settles.
Pragmatic Skepticism
Curious enough to explore, cautious enough to question, and practical enough to pursue only what works.
Trust but Verify
Assume good intentions, but double-check everything. Stay on top of every detail and follow up constantly.
Compelling Communicator
Master storytelling so others instantly understand your invention’s benefits. Clear communication and contagious passion drive people to act.
Strategic Adaptability
Adjust long-term plans in response to changing circumstances without losing sight of your overall goal. Stay flexible without losing focus.
Execution Mentality
Not just talking about ideas, but actually shipping them. Taking action, getting results, and finishing what you start, no matter how messy or uncertain the process may be.
Protective Awareness
Understand how, when, and why to use intellectual property tools strategically to license, raise capital, and increase your company’s valuation.
The Resolute Mindset
The determination to keep moving forward when inventing becomes difficult, uncertain, or overwhelming. Clarity, discipline, resilience, and confidence turn knowledge into action and persistence into real results.
What is inside
What the book covers, and what comes with it.
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The single biggest factor in whether an inventor succeeds is not the idea. It is the inventor’s mindset.
Field-tested lessons
Real stories from licensing, patents, product development, and commercialization.
Three expert perspectives
A serial licensor, a registered patent agent, and a longtime inventor coach.
Action over theory
Clear ways to question assumptions, test ideas, communicate value, and follow through.
Bonus video series
Free Power Mindsets video content that extends the lessons beyond the page.
Meet the authors
Decades of experience from idea to market
Stephen Key
Serial licensor and educator
Co-founder of inventRight, Stephen has licensed his own inventions for decades, with products endorsed by Michael Jordan, Alex Trebek, and Taylor Swift. He has written five books, published over a thousand articles in Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and produced more than 1,200 free videos on YouTube. He knows what it takes to get from concept to royalty check because he has done it over and over.
20+ patents issued in his name
Two Edison Awards
Kevin Prince
Patent agent and inventor
Founder of QuickPatents and a registered patent agent, Kevin has helped over 4,000 clients protect their ideas. He co-founded the Orange County Inventors Forum over 20 years ago and is an inventor himself, named on five patents of his own. He knows where people lose their rights before they realize it, and what it takes to build intellectual property that holds up.
3,100+ client patents issued
Decades of IP experience
Courtney Laschkewitsch
Contributor, inventor, and coach
Courtney brings the coaching perspective from years of working directly with inventors through inventRight. An inventor who has licensed multiple products herself, she understands both the excitement that starts an idea and the frustration of the long middle stretch. Her contributions draw from what she sees in coaching calls, when inventors lose momentum, rediscover purpose, or turn obstacles into opportunity. She hosts The Serial Inventing Podcast.
Multiple products licensed
Real-world coaching insight
The mindsets in action
Mohamed Ali
An engineer from Cairo, Mohamed did not have the money to start a company. Instead of making that an excuse, he made it a reason to learn licensing and intellectual property.
After seeing his young daughter reach for an electrical outlet, he invented the iLock to keep outlet plugs securely in place. He licensed the technology internationally and used the royalties to build his own manufacturing company in Cairo.
Today his company sells many kinds of products. In total, he has sold more than 100 million units.
“Success isn’t about where you begin or what you have. It’s about your willingness to learn, adapt, persevere, and lift others along the way.”
Stephen Key
Veronica Rodriguez
When Veronica started, she was not focused on having everything figured out. She focused on learning. She worked hard, sought knowledge, stayed coachable, and refused to give up.
Today, more than 20 of her ideas for new products are licensed and on the market, an achievement that reflects years of perseverance and dedication.
She is a positive force in the inventor community, always willing to share what she has learned and help fellow inventors move forward.
“Success begins with the right mindset.”
Stephen Key
The Power Mindsets video series
Feedback from attendees of the free video series that extends the book.
“I have been watching the Mindset Series, and it is amazing! The knowledge I gained is useful not only in the invention process.”
Pavel
Power Mindsets series attendee
“Fantastic! Real world cautions, suggestions and information. Thank you.”
Shaun D.
Power Mindsets series attendee
“Thank you so much, all of you. The Power Mindsets series has been inspiring and exactly what I need to keep motivated.”
Gavin M.
Power Mindsets series attendee
“I have been attending inventRight educational events for a few years. The Power Mindsets was the best ever series by far. Great synergy.”
Richard O.
Power Mindsets series attendee
Your idea deserves the right mindset
The nine mindsets in this book have carried thousands of inventors from first idea to signed deal. They can do the same for you.
Get The Power Mindsets in hardcover, paperback, or ebook and start thinking like a professional inventor today.
