My understanding from watching the Netflix episode about him is that it was primary due to the blatant nature of the abuse of sovereign status. That being said, when you see what else they had going on the Indian reservation thing becomes simply one bullet points in the depth of the scam.

I haven't seen that episode but there were two things that really got the trouble started. First was funneling money from the payday loan company to fund his racing team. The other was his brother Joel selling fake debt to collectors claiming it came from Scott or one of the AMG portfolio companies. A whole lot of people that never had a loan suddenly started getting calls from debt collectors. Not to mention those debt collectors were pissed when they found out it was fake and/or sold to multiple other collectors.

If it was legally owned by the tribe it would still run into issues with violating local state laws for any loans issues outside of tribal territories.

That part I'm aware of. My question was not in reference to payday loans or the Tuckers. If a legit tribal company filed this patent, would the ruling be the same? Or does it matter that the patent was "tribal" only in an attempt to get around the review?

The latter. If they legitimately owned the patent (whether they filed it themselves or acquired it by purchase), then this case could have proceeded on its merits.

Yes but they have sovereign immunity so only the feds can come knocking. So it has to be a big enough enterprise or really devious to get in trouble with the feds.