Flash of Genius

“Corporations have time, money, and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth.”

Bob Kearns (Greg Kinnear), a college professor with six kids and a wife, Phyllis (Lauren Graham), wants one thing: credit for the intermittent windshield wiper he invented. When Ford builds its own version, he takes on the auto industry. Marc Abraham follows a man who won't settle, and the film treats a patent as a question of who gets to say a thing is yours.