diff --git a/colorbleed/plugins/maya/publish/validate_node_ids.py b/colorbleed/plugins/maya/publish/validate_node_ids.py
index e2abfb0c79..08a187669e 100644
--- a/colorbleed/plugins/maya/publish/validate_node_ids.py
+++ b/colorbleed/plugins/maya/publish/validate_node_ids.py
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ class ValidateNodeIDs(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
 
         # We do want to check the referenced nodes as it might be
         # part of the end product
-        id_nodes = lib.get_id_required_nodes(referenced_nodes=True)
-        invalid = [n for n in instance[:] if n in id_nodes
-                   and not lib.get_id(n)]
+        id_nodes = lib.get_id_required_nodes(nodes=instance[:])
+        invalid = [n for n in id_nodes if not lib.get_id(n)]
 
         return invalid