Flexi Says: The law of independent assortment would be different, had Mendel known the concept of linkage and crossing over, where the allele of one gene is very close to an allele of another gene in the same DNA strand, that it is very unlikely for the two alleles to separate independently but they are inherited as one unit. Crossing over can recombine the genes. These concepts are essentially independent assortment but deal with the unit of multiple alleles, rather than just an allele.
