That's what patent laws are all about. If a company develops a product, then the rights to the intellectual property are protected by law. That's true of ANY product that is produced and sold here in the U.S. Without the patent protection, nobody would spend the time and resources to develop new products in the first place.
The protection of patents and copyrights is one of the powers of Congress explicitly documented in the U.S. Constitution. I see no "right to affordable prescription drugs" written anywhere in the Constitution.
These discussions remind of the idiocy we see in my own state as a result of the "anti-gouging" laws that were passed in the aftermath of some major disruptive weather events in recent years.
The state passed a law that prohibits a retail establishment from raising their prices more than some nominal amount during a state of emergency. This was done in response to the "outrageous" scenario a few years ago where gas stations raised their prices from $2.50/gallon to $4+ per gallon after a hurricane.
So now we have the natural result of this kind of nanny-state meddling. In the immediate aftermath of a typical winter storm here you can venture out onto the roads and be thankful that gas only costs $2.50/gallon. But the owners of the gas stations don't even bother opening for business until a day later anyway when the roads are clear and conditions are back to normal.
So the $2.50/gallon gasoline may as well cost $2 million per gallon ... since there isn't any available for motorists anyway.
I don’t buy into your argument when it comes to life saving drugs. Sorry. Just don’t buy into it any, too important of an issue. The laws need to be adjusted or caps put on what the drug company can reasonably charge. People who need the drugs do not have the luxury of going outside the US to buy the drugs like it once could many years ago because the greedy drug companies lobbied Congress (aka bought their influence with bribe money) to stop the practice. So screw the drug companies with their crocodile tears.