My understanding that this is a bill promoted by big law firms to make more money and to protect financial industry against patent trolls. Also, 'first-inventor-to-file' is something which big companies were pushing anyway.
We are doomed...
89-9 means many Republicans were on-board. The stereotype for the 'typical' Republican positions are torte reform and less interference with business process.
So just by that reasoning alone, if this was Big Law Firm (only) friendly, it seems to me that so many republicans wouldn't have supported it.
I am just putting forth a theory, as I was not party to the negotiations so I don't know for sure.
Citizens of this nation seem to no longer run their own country very much.
It is all too likely that this bill will benefit patent trolls and large corporations at the expense of everyone else, but there is no way the public will attribute these effects (which will happen years later) to the politicians who voted on this bill. It's really sad.