Alice in the big picture is summarize the invention in a few sentences as an abstract idea. Don’t consider the claims as a whole but piecemeal proclaim that all the elements of the claims were known. Conclude the claims are nothing more than an attempt to claim an abstract idea.

What is interesting is that modern technology is not bound to a physical embodiment like a molecule. Software/hardware/firmware are all equivalent and any invention can be built using on or a combination of them. There are a few cases that don’t quite fit this, but they are not terrible interesting.

So the Scotus was actually brilliant in finding a way to decimate all patents except ones that relied on physical embodiments like molecules. They essentially bifurcated the patent system for pharma, which pharma spent a huge amount of money lobbying for during the drafting of the AIA. And yes I know from first hand experience.

Other things that rely on one physical embodiment are also saved, so that old technology like a gear or bicycle is saved, but all modern technology, e.g., all information processing and electronic circuits, is rendered not eligible subject matter by any fact finder that doesn’t like the claim.

That is where we are. Of course the Scotus isn’t going to take cert. Mission accomplished as far as they are concerned.

Why did they do this? The same reason they did the rule of reason. International competition where the large corporations said they had to do this for the corporations to survive and compete.