The Clearing House Association joined Bank of America Corp.; Barclays Capital, Inc.; The Financial Services Roundtable; Google, Inc.; MetLife; Inc.; and Morgan Stanley in an amicus brief in support of the respondent, USPTO. The amicus brief argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should reaffirm long-settled principles of patent law that exclude abstract ideas and mental processes from patent eligibility and that allowing abstract ideas to be patented would threaten innovation. In a June 28, 2010 decision the Supreme Court held that "the machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for determining the patent eligibility of a process, but rather a useful tool. Bilski's application, seeking a patent on a method for hedging risk in the commodities market, did not draw to patent eligible subject matter."

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