The story was by George Perry Johnson, both a writer and a member of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company executive board.

She decides to search for her biological parents, with the help of the young attorney Manuel Romero (played by Lew Meehan), who has a secret crush on her.

The Daily Herald also reviewed the film saying “[By Right of Birth is] free from racial propaganda such as has been characteristic in several similar productions attempted by other concerns”.

[dubious – discuss] The film was a response to D.W. Griffith's 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, which was about the American Civil War, and is infamous for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as heroic; it also featured white male actors in blackface, often portrayed as hurting and harassing white women.

To cast a white man as the villain in a race film would be making a statement, which might have been something that the Lincoln Motion Picture Company was avoiding.