Change Is Coming: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

You may have missed it, but it's election season in the United States. Yet even with the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the two major political parties, there is at least one thing that unites many in the political world: patentable subject matter eligibility.

I know it sounds like a joke, but if you look at the trio of US Supreme Court decisions that defined current US patent eligibility law (Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012); Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013); and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, 573 U.S. 208 (2014)), all were unanimous decisions by a Court that is more often than not split along political lines.