A little light on the Mayo: justifying reversal of the Federal Circuit's Association for Molecular Pathology decision.

Patents grant their owners the right to exclude others from practicing a claimed invention for a limited time. Whether patents actually protect the economic interests of their owners, provide incentive for innovation, and foster economic growth has been extensively debated. There are undisputedly, however, times when the same patents that may protect an entity’s exclusive interest in a claimed invention—to an important, lifesaving therapy for instance— simultaneously deprive others of access to that very invention, resulting in significant harm to those excluded. Precedent indicates,