In this case, the decision is by chief judge radar, who believes the court's goal should be to strengthen intellectual property protections.

How do i know this?

He told me (and the rest of the class) this, when I took his class on the federal circuit in law school many years ago.

Silly me, of course, always thought courts were there to decide law, not have policy goals.

In any case, this is one of a long line of the federal circuit giving the middle finger to the supreme court. Judge radar and others basically believe the supreme court is not helpful to them when they are trying to create rules practitioners can follow, so he tries to ignore them when possible.

He also cites his completely ridiculous reasoning from CLS Bank:

  At bottom, with a claim tied to a computer in a specific 
  way, such that the computer plays a meaningful role in the 
  performance of the claimed invention, it is as a matter of
  fact not likely to pre-empt virtually all uses of an   
  underlying abstract idea, leaving the invention patent  
  eligible