The Justices of the Supreme Court are most likely to take cases that will affect the entire country, not just the individuals involved. They want to clarify legal issues that are important too as many people as possible, so they take cases that will have a large constitutional impact, or that answer important legal questions that affect the whole nation.

If you refer to strong patent law coming up in congress, Alice/101 is affecting the whole tech community and almost every other industry and not just SFOR.