Yes, that is the entire point of the game. All of you are from different periods in history, and you're all traveling back in time to the first day the U.S. Pat

Yes, that is the entire point of the game. All of you are from different periods in history, and you're all traveling back in time to the first day the U.S. Patent Office opens, in order to get the very first patent. But of course since you're all time travelers aiming for the same point in time, you have to interfere with each other in order to actually be the "first" to arrive. It gets very silly.