diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/MainCommand.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/MainCommand.kt
index 29afa52e..0bed6d28 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/MainCommand.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/MainCommand.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package app.revanced.cli
 
-import app.revanced.patch.PatchLoader
 import app.revanced.patch.Patches
 import app.revanced.utils.adb.Adb
 import picocli.CommandLine.*
@@ -49,8 +48,7 @@ internal object MainCommand : Runnable {
     override fun run() {
         if (listOnly) {
             patchBundles.forEach {
-                PatchLoader.injectPatches(it)
-                Patches.loadPatches().forEach {
+                Patches.load(it).forEach {
                     println(it().metadata)
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/Patcher.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/Patcher.kt
index 59a6b785..e0f1d7f9 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/Patcher.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/cli/Patcher.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package app.revanced.cli
 
-import app.revanced.patch.PatchLoader
 import app.revanced.patch.Patches
 import app.revanced.patcher.data.base.Data
 import app.revanced.patcher.patch.base.Patch
@@ -59,9 +58,8 @@ internal class Patcher {
             val checkInclude = MainCommand.includedPatches.isNotEmpty()
 
             MainCommand.patchBundles.forEach { bundle ->
-                PatchLoader.injectPatches(bundle)
                 val includedPatches = mutableListOf<Patch<Data>>()
-                Patches.loadPatches().forEach patch@{
+                Patches.load(bundle).forEach patch@{
                     val patch = it()
 
                     // TODO: filter out incompatible patches with package metadata
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/PatchLoader.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/PatchLoader.kt
index 74ca2fd3..088076f4 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/PatchLoader.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/PatchLoader.kt
@@ -1,25 +1,10 @@
 package app.revanced.patch
 
 import java.io.File
-import java.net.URL
 import java.net.URLClassLoader
 
 internal class PatchLoader {
     internal companion object {
-        internal fun injectPatches(file: File) {
-            // This function will fail on Java 9 and above.
-            try {
-                val url = file.toURI().toURL()
-                val classLoader = Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader as URLClassLoader
-                val method = URLClassLoader::class.java.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", URL::class.java)
-                method.isAccessible = true
-                method.invoke(classLoader, url)
-            } catch (e: Exception) {
-                throw Exception(
-                    "Failed to inject patches! The CLI does NOT work on Java 9 and above, please use Java 8!",
-                    e // propagate exception
-                )
-            }
-        }
+
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/Patches.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/Patches.kt
index 7ba81470..b302c900 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/Patches.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/patch/Patches.kt
@@ -1,15 +1,26 @@
 package app.revanced.patch
 
+import app.revanced.patcher.data.base.Data
+import app.revanced.patcher.patch.base.Patch
 import app.revanced.patches.Index
+import java.io.File
+import java.net.URLClassLoader
 
-internal class Patches {
-    internal companion object {
-        // You may ask yourself, "why do this?".
-        // We do it like this, because we don't want the Index class
-        // to be loaded while the dependency hasn't been injected yet.
-        // You can see this as "controlled class loading".
-        // Whenever this class is loaded (because it is invoked), all the imports
-        // will be loaded too. We don't want to do this until we've injected the class.
-        internal fun loadPatches() = Index.patches
+internal object Patches {
+
+
+    /**
+     * This method loads patches from a given patch file
+     * @return the loaded patches represented as a list of functions returning instances of [Patch]
+     */
+    internal fun load(patchFile: File): List<() -> Patch<Data>> {
+        val url = patchFile.toURI().toURL()
+        val classLoader = URLClassLoader(arrayOf(url))
+        return loadIndex(classLoader).patches
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+    private fun loadIndex(classLoader: ClassLoader) = classLoader
+        .loadClass(Index::class.java.canonicalName)
+        .fields
+        .first()
+        .get(null) as Index
+}
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/filesystem/FileSystemUtils.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/filesystem/FileSystemUtils.kt
index 10559d85..7a1d32e6 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/filesystem/FileSystemUtils.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/filesystem/FileSystemUtils.kt
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ internal class FileSystemUtils(
     private var fileSystem: FileSystem
 
     init {
-        fileSystem = FileSystems.newFileSystem(
-            file.toPath(),
-            null
-        )
+        fileSystem = FileSystems.newFileSystem(file.toPath(), null as ClassLoader?)
     }
 
     private fun deleteDirectory(dirPath: String) {
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/signing/Signer.kt b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/signing/Signer.kt
index ff56a29c..16adfe48 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/signing/Signer.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/utils/signing/Signer.kt
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ object Signer {
             (keyStore.getKey(alias, PASSWORD) as PrivateKey)
         )
 
-        val zip = FileSystems.newFileSystem(apkFile.toPath(), null)
+        val zip = FileSystems.newFileSystem(apkFile.toPath(), null as ClassLoader?)
 
         val dig = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1")
         val digests: MutableMap<String, String> = LinkedHashMap()