But the limits of the drafters’ imagination supply no reason to ignore the law’s demands. When the express terms of a statute give us one answer and extratextual considerations suggest another, it’s no contest. Only the written word is the law . . . .
Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, __ U.S. _ (2020)(slip opinion at page 2).
Instead, when Congress chooses not to include any exceptions to a broad rule, courts apply the broad rule.
Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, __ U.S. _ (2020)(slip opinion at page 19).
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
35 U.S.C. §101 (a.k.a., the broad rule)