diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/context/propagation/HttpTraceContext.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/context/propagation/HttpTraceContext.ts
index 735e8d2e44..8b4dac8216 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/context/propagation/HttpTraceContext.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/context/propagation/HttpTraceContext.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import {
   Context,
   getSpanContext,
+  isSpanContextValid,
   setSpanContext,
   SpanContext,
   TextMapGetter,
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ export function parseTraceParent(traceParent: string): SpanContext | null {
 export class HttpTraceContext implements TextMapPropagator {
   inject(context: Context, carrier: unknown, setter: TextMapSetter) {
     const spanContext = getSpanContext(context);
-    if (!spanContext) return;
+    if (!spanContext || !isSpanContextValid(spanContext)) return;
 
     const traceParent = `${VERSION}-${spanContext.traceId}-${
       spanContext.spanId
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/context/HttpTraceContext.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/context/HttpTraceContext.test.ts
index a732a471f9..831a3899df 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/context/HttpTraceContext.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/context/HttpTraceContext.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import {
   TraceFlags,
   getSpanContext,
   setSpanContext,
+  INVALID_TRACEID,
+  INVALID_SPANID,
 } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { ROOT_CONTEXT } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import * as assert from 'assert';
@@ -78,6 +80,23 @@ describe('HttpTraceContext', () => {
       );
       assert.deepStrictEqual(carrier[TRACE_STATE_HEADER], 'foo=bar,baz=qux');
     });
+
+    it('should ignore invalid span context', () => {
+      const spanContext: SpanContext = {
+        traceId: INVALID_TRACEID,
+        spanId: INVALID_SPANID,
+        traceFlags: TraceFlags.NONE,
+        traceState: new TraceState('foo=bar,baz=qux'),
+      };
+
+      httpTraceContext.inject(
+        setSpanContext(ROOT_CONTEXT, spanContext),
+        carrier,
+        defaultTextMapSetter
+      );
+      assert.strictEqual(carrier[TRACE_PARENT_HEADER], undefined);
+      assert.strictEqual(carrier[TRACE_STATE_HEADER], undefined);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('.extract()', () => {