In a series of decisions the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit have scaled back available remedies for the patent holder, while at the   same time increasing the risks associated with enforcing one’s patent. In   Ebay, Inc. v.  Mercexchange LLC , 547 U.S. 388 (2006), the Supreme Court made it more difficult for the patent holder to obtain injunctive relief. Next, in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007), the Supreme Court made it easier to render a patent invalid for obviousness. Meanwhile, the Federal Circuit in In re Seagate Technology, LLC , 497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007) substantially raised the evidentiary threshold for finding willfulness, and in Muniauction, Inc. v. Thomson Corp., 532 F.3d 1318 (Fed. Cir. 2008) and  In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (cert. granted Bilski v. Doll, 129 S. Cl. 2735 (2009)) made it more difficult to obtain and enforce business method patents.