diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/spdx/Spdx22ComponentDetector.cs b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/spdx/Spdx22ComponentDetector.cs
index ee53ccc8e..5a3b4bb1f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/spdx/Spdx22ComponentDetector.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/spdx/Spdx22ComponentDetector.cs
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ namespace Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors.Spdx;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Text.Json;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Contracts;
 using Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Contracts.Internal;
 using Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Contracts.TypedComponent;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
-using Newtonsoft.Json;
-using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
 
 /// <summary>
 /// Spdx22ComponentDetector discover SPDX SBOM files in JSON format and create components with the information about
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ public Spdx22ComponentDetector(
 
     public override IList<string> SearchPatterns => ["*.spdx.json"];
 
-    protected override Task OnFileFoundAsync(ProcessRequest processRequest, IDictionary<string, string> detectorArgs, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+    protected override async Task OnFileFoundAsync(ProcessRequest processRequest, IDictionary<string, string> detectorArgs, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
     {
         this.Logger.LogDebug("Discovered SPDX2.2 manifest file at: {ManifestLocation}", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
         var file = processRequest.ComponentStream;
@@ -56,31 +55,22 @@ protected override Task OnFileFoundAsync(ProcessRequest processRequest, IDiction
             // Reset buffer to starting position after hash generation.
             file.Stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
 
-            using var sr = new StreamReader(file.Stream);
-            using var reader = new JsonTextReader(sr);
-            var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
-
             try
             {
-                var document = serializer.Deserialize<JObject>(reader);
-                if (document != null)
+                using var document = await JsonDocument.ParseAsync(file.Stream, cancellationToken: cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                var root = document.RootElement;
+
+                if (this.IsSPDXVersionSupported(root))
                 {
-                    if (this.IsSPDXVersionSupported(document))
-                    {
-                        var sbomComponent = this.ConvertJObjectToSbomComponent(processRequest, document, hash);
-                        processRequest.SingleFileComponentRecorder.RegisterUsage(new DetectedComponent(sbomComponent));
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        this.Logger.LogWarning("Discovered SPDX at {ManifestLocation} is not SPDX-2.2 document, skipping", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
-                    }
+                    var sbomComponent = this.ConvertJsonElementToSbomComponent(processRequest, root, hash);
+                    processRequest.SingleFileComponentRecorder.RegisterUsage(new DetectedComponent(sbomComponent));
                 }
                 else
                 {
-                    this.Logger.LogWarning("Discovered SPDX file at {ManifestLocation} is not a valid document, skipping", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
+                    this.Logger.LogWarning("Discovered SPDX at {ManifestLocation} is not SPDX-2.2 document, skipping", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
                 }
             }
-            catch (JsonReaderException)
+            catch (JsonException)
             {
                 this.Logger.LogWarning("Unable to parse file at {ManifestLocation}, skipping", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
             }
@@ -89,25 +79,40 @@ protected override Task OnFileFoundAsync(ProcessRequest processRequest, IDiction
         {
             this.Logger.LogError(e, "Error while processing SPDX file at {ManifestLocation}", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
         }
-
-        return Task.CompletedTask;
     }
 
-    private bool IsSPDXVersionSupported(JObject document) => this.supportedSPDXVersions.Contains(document["spdxVersion"]?.ToString(), StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+    private bool IsSPDXVersionSupported(JsonElement document)
+    {
+        if (document.TryGetProperty("spdxVersion", out var versionElement))
+        {
+            var version = versionElement.GetString();
+            return this.supportedSPDXVersions.Contains(version, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+        }
 
-    private SpdxComponent ConvertJObjectToSbomComponent(ProcessRequest processRequest, JObject document, string fileHash)
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private SpdxComponent ConvertJsonElementToSbomComponent(ProcessRequest processRequest, JsonElement document, string fileHash)
     {
-        var sbomNamespace = document["documentNamespace"]?.ToString();
-        var rootElements = document["documentDescribes"]?.ToObject<string[]>();
-        var name = document["name"]?.ToString();
-        var spdxVersion = document["spdxVersion"]?.ToString();
+        var sbomNamespace = document.TryGetProperty("documentNamespace", out var nsElement) ? nsElement.GetString() : null;
+        var name = document.TryGetProperty("name", out var nameElement) ? nameElement.GetString() : null;
+        var spdxVersion = document.TryGetProperty("spdxVersion", out var spdxVersionElement) ? spdxVersionElement.GetString() : null;
+
+        string[] rootElements = null;
+        if (document.TryGetProperty("documentDescribes", out var describesElement) && describesElement.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Array)
+        {
+            rootElements = describesElement.EnumerateArray()
+                .Select(e => e.GetString())
+                .Where(s => s != null)
+                .ToArray();
+        }
 
-        if (rootElements?.Length > 1)
+        if (rootElements is { Length: > 1 })
         {
             this.Logger.LogWarning("SPDX file at {ManifestLocation} has more than one element in documentDescribes, first will be selected as root element.", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
         }
 
-        if (rootElements != null && rootElements.Length == 0)
+        if (rootElements is { Length: 0 })
         {
             this.Logger.LogWarning("SPDX file at {ManifestLocation} does not have root elements in documentDescribes section, considering SPDXRef-Document as a root element.", processRequest.ComponentStream.Location);
         }