This Scotus decision seems to be in line with a pattern of court decisions by conservative, as well as liberal, judges, to weaken patent protections.
This Amgen decision seems to be the tip of the iceberg of what is becoming a pattern of invalidation of patents altogether...The current theory is that...if you really don't fully understand the science or the history behind a patent, just make it go away.
Patent lawyers have to be scientists and teachers in addition to being litigators.