"invite a comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to compare something to something else. For example, "The two policies invite a comparison to examine which one is more effective."
This novel, so engaged with questions of aging and nakedness, invites a comparison.
Meanwhile, a new installation by Ai Weiwei invites a comparison with the work of Beuys, his German pavilion antecedent.
The structure of the course invites a comparison to the massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, which are offered free — though typically not for credit — to anyone with an Internet connection.
Stacy Malkan, author of "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry," said that parents have been fighting a losing battle with the beauty industry, which now markets to children so aggressively that it invites a comparison to Big Tobacco's efforts, like Joe Camel.
Indeed, in a long footnote at the conclusion of Notes on Thinking, Ortega invited a comparison between himself and Husserl.
However, this description is misleading in that it invites a comparison between imagery and design which both mislocates the significance of these phenomena and also fails to give an insightful account of them.
Ortega perceived in his perspectivist mode of apprehending reality a philosophical analogue to Einstein's physics and, subsequently, invited a comparison of his philosophy of perspectivism to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
While such images may appear to invite a superficial comparison, it is disingenuous to use them to distort the reality.
Although there were other differences in the trials (e.g., most, but not all, were double-blind; most used VKA as a comparator, AVERROES used aspirin), the similarities invite a brief comparison.
>> Anyone watching NBC's coverage might have heard Brokaw actually say (out loud, even, though very quickly) that it's unfortunate the Cheney is in a wheelchair because he doesn't want to invite a Dr. Strangelove comparison.
