The Ninth Amendment guarantees that under no circumstance will you be denied your rights, because of the rights given to another. An example would be that someone could not protest in your house just because he has the right to protest, since that would violate your right to privacy (which is in itself a hotly debated topic). This Amendment has been said to have been included in the Bill of Rights to protect people from what lawyers call enumerated rights (the rights the founders assumed they didn't need to include.
This is a video explaining what lawyers today call enumerated rights. These are the rights that would have been left out of the Constitution. This was the founders way to make sure that if they forgot a certain right in the Bill of Rights that didn't mean that it wasn't a right that you should have. Some rights are just known, and they couldn't include everything in the Constitution.
Not only does the Patriot Act violate the Fourth Amendment it also violates the Ninth Amendment. The Patriot Act gives the power to take away the rights of the few to protect the liberty of others. This is exactly why the Ninth Amendment was included in the Constitution; so that you couldn't take away someone's rights because of the rights of another. However, Congress renewed the Patriot Act so their isn't much we can do.
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