To provide a surgical stapler of a new composition.

A surgical instrument 100 includes a surgical anvil formed in a distal end of the surgical stapler 100 and a staple cartridge 104 selectively receivable in the distal end of the surgical stapler, and is placed in juxtaposition relative to the staple anvil. The staple cartridge includes one or more laterally spaced apart rows of staple slots 124 formed in an upper surface thereof, a plurality of surgical staples S disposed, one each, within the staple slots, and a staple line reinforcing system configured and adapted to augment the strength of the staple line formed by the firing of the surgical staples into body tissue, wherein the surgical stapler T concomitantly drives the plurality of surgical staples through the adjacent layers of body tissue to mechanically secure the body tissue and activates the reinforcing system to non-mechanically secure the adjacent layers of body tissue to one another at the same time.