diff --git a/src/components/FocusTrap/FocusTrapForModal/index.web.tsx b/src/components/FocusTrap/FocusTrapForModal/index.web.tsx
index be5da8c49a78..00dcedd32aa2 100644
--- a/src/components/FocusTrap/FocusTrapForModal/index.web.tsx
+++ b/src/components/FocusTrap/FocusTrapForModal/index.web.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import FocusTrap from 'focus-trap-react';
 import React from 'react';
 import sharedTrapStack from '@components/FocusTrap/sharedTrapStack';
+import ReportActionComposeFocusManager from '@libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager';
 import type FocusTrapForModalProps from './FocusTrapForModalProps';
 
 function FocusTrapForModal({children, active}: FocusTrapForModalProps) {
@@ -12,6 +13,12 @@ function FocusTrapForModal({children, active}: FocusTrapForModalProps) {
                 clickOutsideDeactivates: true,
                 initialFocus: false,
                 fallbackFocus: document.body,
+                setReturnFocus: (element) => {
+                    if (ReportActionComposeFocusManager.isFocused()) {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    return element;
+                },
             }}
         >
             {children}
diff --git a/src/libs/Navigation/isReportOpenInRHP.ts b/src/libs/Navigation/isReportOpenInRHP.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..51e8a95bb66b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libs/Navigation/isReportOpenInRHP.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import type {NavigationState} from '@react-navigation/native';
+import NAVIGATORS from '@src/NAVIGATORS';
+import SCREENS from '@src/SCREENS';
+
+const isReportOpenInRHP = (state: NavigationState | undefined): boolean => {
+    const lastRoute = state?.routes?.at(-1);
+    if (!lastRoute) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    const params = lastRoute.params;
+    if (params && 'screen' in params && typeof params.screen === 'string' && params.screen === SCREENS.RIGHT_MODAL.SEARCH_REPORT) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    return !!(lastRoute.name === NAVIGATORS.RIGHT_MODAL_NAVIGATOR && lastRoute.state?.routes?.some((route) => route?.name === SCREENS.RIGHT_MODAL.SEARCH_REPORT));
+};
+
+export default isReportOpenInRHP;
diff --git a/src/libs/Navigation/linkTo/index.ts b/src/libs/Navigation/linkTo/index.ts
index 3c4608d6b5de..bb0a8a233046 100644
--- a/src/libs/Navigation/linkTo/index.ts
+++ b/src/libs/Navigation/linkTo/index.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import type {NavigationContainerRef, NavigationState, PartialState} from '@react
 import {findFocusedRoute} from '@react-navigation/native';
 import {omitBy} from 'lodash';
 import getIsNarrowLayout from '@libs/getIsNarrowLayout';
+import isReportOpenInRHP from '@libs/Navigation/isReportOpenInRHP';
 import extractPolicyIDsFromState from '@libs/Navigation/linkingConfig/extractPolicyIDsFromState';
 import isCentralPaneName from '@libs/NavigationUtils';
 import shallowCompare from '@libs/ObjectUtils';
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ export default function linkTo(navigation: NavigationContainerRef<RootStackParam
 
     const action: StackNavigationAction = getActionFromState(stateFromPath, linkingConfig.config);
 
-    const isReportInRhpOpened = lastRoute?.name === NAVIGATORS.RIGHT_MODAL_NAVIGATOR && lastRoute?.state?.routes?.some((route) => route?.name === SCREENS.RIGHT_MODAL.SEARCH_REPORT);
+    const isReportInRhpOpened = isReportOpenInRHP(rootState);
 
     // If action type is different than NAVIGATE we can't change it to the PUSH safely
     if (action?.type === CONST.NAVIGATION.ACTION_TYPE.NAVIGATE) {
diff --git a/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts b/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
index 0765f5f0ba75..2dfa81d89a20 100644
--- a/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
+++ b/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import type {MutableRefObject} from 'react';
 import type {TextInput} from 'react-native';
-import ROUTES from '@src/ROUTES';
-import Navigation from './Navigation/Navigation';
+import SCREENS from '@src/SCREENS';
+import getTopmostRouteName from './Navigation/getTopmostRouteName';
+import isReportOpenInRHP from './Navigation/isReportOpenInRHP';
+import navigationRef from './Navigation/navigationRef';
 
 type FocusCallback = (shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside?: boolean) => void;
 
@@ -31,8 +33,9 @@ function onComposerFocus(callback: FocusCallback | null, isMainComposer = false)
  * Request focus on the ReportActionComposer
  */
 function focus(shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside?: boolean) {
-    /** Do not trigger the refocusing when the active route is not the report route, */
-    if (!Navigation.isActiveRoute(ROUTES.REPORT_WITH_ID.getRoute(Navigation.getTopmostReportId() ?? '-1'))) {
+    /** Do not trigger the refocusing when the active route is not the report screen */
+    const navigationState = navigationRef.getState();
+    if (!navigationState || (!isReportOpenInRHP(navigationState) && getTopmostRouteName(navigationState) !== SCREENS.REPORT)) {
         return;
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/perf-test/SidebarLinks.perf-test.tsx b/tests/perf-test/SidebarLinks.perf-test.tsx
index 4caa22d062d4..0bd2e83f4e72 100644
--- a/tests/perf-test/SidebarLinks.perf-test.tsx
+++ b/tests/perf-test/SidebarLinks.perf-test.tsx
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ jest.mock('../../src/libs/Navigation/Navigation', () => ({
     isNavigationReady: jest.fn(() => Promise.resolve()),
     isDisplayedInModal: jest.fn(() => false),
 }));
+jest.mock('../../src/libs/Navigation/navigationRef', () => ({
+    getState: () => ({
+        routes: [],
+    }),
+}));
 jest.mock('@components/Icon/Expensicons');
 
 jest.mock('@react-navigation/native');