diff --git a/news/13356.vendor.rst b/news/13356.vendor.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..85664222875
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/13356.vendor.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix issues with using tomllib from the stdlib if available, rather than tomli
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/req/req_dependency_group.py b/src/pip/_internal/req/req_dependency_group.py
index 8f124de5b81..e81dd45522a 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/req/req_dependency_group.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/req/req_dependency_group.py
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+import sys
 from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, Iterator, List, Tuple
 
-from pip._vendor import tomli
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
+    import tomllib
+else:
+    from pip._vendor import tomli as tomllib
+
 from pip._vendor.dependency_groups import DependencyGroupResolver
 
 from pip._internal.exceptions import InstallationError
@@ -65,10 +70,10 @@ def _load_pyproject(path: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     """
     try:
         with open(path, "rb") as fp:
-            return tomli.load(fp)
+            return tomllib.load(fp)
     except FileNotFoundError:
         raise InstallationError(f"{path} not found. Cannot resolve '--group' option.")
-    except tomli.TOMLDecodeError as e:
+    except tomllib.TOMLDecodeError as e:
         raise InstallationError(f"Error parsing {path}: {e}") from e
     except OSError as e:
         raise InstallationError(f"Error reading {path}: {e}") from e
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_req_dependency_group.py b/tests/unit/test_req_dependency_group.py
index b596f6fc5d7..1b180f8d7f8 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_req_dependency_group.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_req_dependency_group.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def epipe_toml_load(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
         raise OSError(errno.EPIPE, "Broken pipe")
 
     monkeypatch.setattr(
-        "pip._internal.req.req_dependency_group.tomli.load", epipe_toml_load
+        "pip._internal.req.req_dependency_group.tomllib.load", epipe_toml_load
     )
 
     with pytest.raises(InstallationError, match=r"Error reading pyproject\.toml"):