The head of the Trump administrations patent and trademark office is the featured speaker at a fundraiser for a right-wing group an event sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that have business with the agency.

Andre Iancu, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a self-funded federal agency that issues the nations patents, is delivering a speech on restoring American patents at a May 22 fundraising dinner for the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund.

The two organizations, founded by the late social conservative leader Phyllis Schafly, serve as lobbying and education organs, respectively, for causes like restricting abortion rights and immigration, fighting radical feminists and supporting traditional education, such as religious homeschooling.

Phyllis Schlafly Eagless Mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policy making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise, the Eagles website states.

But though the two Eagles groups are billed mainly as socially conservative outfits, the May 22 fundraiser is sponsored by an array of powerful corporate lobbying interests.

The trade organizations backing the event include PhRMA, which represents major pharmaceutical companies; the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, another pharmaceutical lobbying group; the Innovation Alliance, which represents drugmakers and technology firms; and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The common goal of the various trade groups sponsoring the event is preserving and strengthening patent protections that guarantee them competition-free streams of profits for their products.