Check the references, and check with your state Attorney General's Office to determine whether state law requires success rate disclosure. Lists of manufacturers that come from classifying your idea with the SIC usually are of limited value. Now we must follow-up with criminal indictments. A sort of respite for the independent inventor and our nation's economy. The new educational program is a fabulous idea.
Reliable information is perhaps the frauds biggest enemy.
The educational material, by itself, is of little value unless it is advertised. You have to advertise right where the frauds advertise in order to reach the same inventors that the bad guys are reaching. The publishers, TV and Radio producers that have made it possible for this type of scam to be so successful should provide public service space. I personally prefer heavy fines for advertising fraud, but public service messages would probably be more effective. July 23rd 1997 was indeed a great day for America's independent inventor and a good start for eradicating a destructive pariah from our society.