WilPharma Corporation Ltd. was the world's second largest pharmaceutical company, second only to the Umbrella Corporation. Following the bankruptcy and subsequent collapse of Umbrella in 2003, WilPharma became the industry leader.
History
During the Raccoon City tragedy, a special committee was formed within the United States Senate to vote on the 'Sterilization Operation' which wiped the city off the map. Senator Ron Davis, a large stockholder and special advisor to WilPharma voted in favour of the operation in order to destroy the relationship between the Umbrella Corporation and the United States Government. In doing so, WilPharma would become the industry leader, becoming friendly with the government and replacing Umbrella. In 2002, a former Umbrella researcher named Frederic Downing joined the company. Downing was responsible for the personal creation of a vaccine against the t-virus. Continuing its development at WilPharma, he thought about a demonstration to prove its efficiency and to prevent it from being sold other than as a combined set of both virus and vaccine. After joining WilPharma, he disguised himself as a black market dealer and met with General Miguel Grande, who was supporting a terrorist group in India. He sold the t-virus to the General, setting off a bio-terrorism incident.
The US government received a request for help from India and decided to introduce the t-vaccine currently under development by WilPharma to the neighbouring areas. This decision led to a success in keeping the spread of the infection to a minimum. As a result, WilPharma won the trust of the US government, leading the Pentagon to enter into a secret one billion dollar contract with WilPharma to develop the t-vaccine, and the decision was reached to construct a new state-of-the-art research facility. In order to increase the maturity of the virus, WilPharma continued to perform clinical trials based in India where cheap and skilled labour was plentiful. Over time, there were some victims of the experiments, but the government tolerated these failures with silent acceptance based on the mindset of "no prosperity without sacrifice" and regarding all such tragedies in India as "necessary evils", despite the clinical trials being completely illegal.
As a result of his position with the company and his influence in Washington, Ron Davis was able to attract WilPharma to the US mid-west industrial city of Harvardville. The company purchased expansive amounts of land in the mountain valleys far from the city's residential areas and constructed its corporate headquarters there, and the decision was made to also construct the new research facility there. After this decision however, a member of the NGO TerraSave named Curtis Miller aggressively pressured WilPharma into releasing information on their clinical trials being conducted in India, eventually breaking into one of their offices. As a result, Miller was charged with obstruction of business and blackmail and construction of the research facility began as if nothing had happened.
Following the bankruptcy of Umbrella in 2003, WilPharma became a massive pharmaceutical firm and replaced Umbrella as the industry leader. Meanwhile, construction on the new research facility and the secret development of the t-vaccine were advancing rapidly, with Frederic Downing becoming lead researcher. Eventually, construction of the new facility was finished in 2005, with development of the vaccine also being completed around the same time. All that remained was to wait for government approval. However, in August the NGO TerraSave uncovered photographic evidence of the clinical trials being conducted in India and posted them on its home page. Demonstrations by protesters escalated. TerraSave warned that if the United States Government did not launch an investigation into WilPharma, it would appeal to the International Criminal Court. This accusation caused WilPharma's stock prices to fall dramatically, and because the government was having second thoughts about approving the t-vaccine, WilPharma had to put off supplying the t-vaccine for medical supply national stockpiling, as it had previously planned.
In order to dodge the brunt of public opposition, Senator Davis desperately tried to hold a National Pharmaceutical Conference in Harvardville. Just as he was visiting the airport, a mysterious terrorist contacted the United States Government with a threat. The terrorist demanded that the United States President himself announce the truth behind Raccoon City incident that the government had concealed seven years before. If the demand was not met, the t-virus would be released all over the United States. Later that day, a bio-terrorism incident occurred in the airport terminal with the rapid spread of the virus, producing several Zombie creatures.
Following the resolution of the incident through the efforts of Leon S. Kennedy and several others, it was discovered that Frederic Downing and Curtis Miller were responsible for the incident. Afterwards, Ron Davis resigned from his Senate position after he was charged with insider trading of WilPharma stock. The company itself went bankrupt and was eventually bought out by another pharmaceutical company; Tricell.