diff --git a/news/13134.feature.rst b/news/13134.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b87f67d376d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/13134.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Support :pep:`639` License-Expression and License-File metadata fields in JSON
+output. ``pip inspect`` and ``pip install --report`` now emit
+``license_expression`` and ``license_file`` fields in the ``metadata`` object,
+if the corresponding fields are present in the installed ``METADATA`` file.
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/metadata/_json.py b/src/pip/_internal/metadata/_json.py
index 9097dd58590..f3aeab3225f 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/metadata/_json.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/metadata/_json.py
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
     ("Maintainer", False),
     ("Maintainer-email", False),
     ("License", False),
+    ("License-Expression", False),
+    ("License-File", True),
     ("Classifier", True),
     ("Requires-Dist", True),
     ("Requires-Python", False),