Applying Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc. (2020) 9 Cal. 5th 1130 to an at-will employment contract, this decision holds that to assert a tort claim for inducing breach of the contract, the plaintiff must allege independently wrongful conduct. Here, plaintiff could not do so. He lacked antitrust standing to rely on the antitrust violation that he had alleged as the independent wrong. And a competitor’s complaint to his supervisors about plaintiff’s allegedly improper sales pitch was not an independently wrongful act.