Get access to USB device on Linux (libusb-1.0)?

I am writing a small program to communicate with a specific USB HID product (identified by vendor and product IDs), using libusb-1.0 on Linux. Right now, I have to run the program as root because "libusb requires write access to USB device nodes". Is there a way to change the permissions on the device I need so that I don't need to run my program as root?