"invite argument" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to encourage someone to give you an opinion or point of view that is different from yours, such as: "We'd like to hear diverse perspectives, so please feel free to invite argument."
Mr. Cousins's account is the place from which all future revisionism must start, and it is capacious enough to invite argument and elaboration.
But while Miley's new status as leading Halloween get-up will rightly invite argument over slut-shaming, a lack of self-respect is clearly still seen as ghoulish, and that's something to cling onto.
Promoting any city as the gastronomic heart of Italy is to invite argument (most Bolognese would insist that Parma isn't even the gastronomic capital of Emilia-Romagna), but three name checks in one course?
Theories rarely bring peace, since they inspire divisions based on right and wrong and invite argument that leads to conflict.
Coates provokes and invites argument.
Instead of being passively read, "Being Nixon" invites argument.
Tannhäuser is sometimes less laden with directorial "konzept" than other Wagner works, but the huge scale of the composer's ambition invites argument.
Death in a Cold Climate is important in that context: the kind of book that sticks its neck out and invites argument by expressing opinions in such exuberant language that you are carried along, interested and involved.
Of course, no account of blacks in opera is complete without reference to "Porgy and Bess" and the lingering controversy as to whether Gershwin's folk opera (even that term invites argument) helped or hindered black singers.
As Anderson says in his annual report, "whether the power is proportionate in its current form is however a legitimate subject for both public debate and judicial scrutiny: for during 2012 and 2013, courts both in England and in Strasbourg have invited argument on the precise question of whether the exercise of the schedule 7 power is necessary in a democratic society".
Virtually every line invites argument.
