Let \(\mathbb {H}\) be a \(n-1\) -dimensional hyperbolic paraboloid in \(\mathbb {R}^n\) and let m be the minimum between the number of positive and negative principal curvatures of \(\mathbb {H}\) . We study the restriction problem for \(\mathbb {H}\) in dimension \(n\ge 4\) by the polynomial partitioning method and improve the result of Hickman and Iliopoulou (Math. Z. 301:1143–1189, 2022) when \(n\ge 5\) is odd and \(m=\frac{n-3}{2}.\)