The phrase "a patchwork of action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or approach that is made up of various different elements or actions that are not necessarily cohesive or uniform.
Example: "The project was a patchwork of action, with different teams working on separate tasks without a unified strategy."
Alternatives: "a mosaic of actions" or "a collection of efforts".
The screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr is itself a patchwork of action-movie themes — including storm-trooping soldiers in black helicopters and an intelligence agency with a covert program — that have been recombined along Grimm Brothers story lines.
Even as the Democratic senators were still speaking, President Obama issued a statement praising the proposal as "an important step," and he warned that lack of federal action would "leave the door open to a patchwork of actions at the state and local level that are inconsistent and, as we have seen recently, often misguided".
MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG'S plan to build or preserve 65,000 housing units is less a cohesive single program than a patchwork of actions and aspirations; a sum of parts as small as the rezoning of a few rather scraggly blocks in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx that might -- just might -- create some 300 apartments.
A patchwork of actions has been taken to either ban or restrict the use of coal-tar-based sealcoat in the United States.
Janácek's 1924 work – short, rhapsodic and pantheistic – stitches together several stories in a patchwork of quick-fire musical action and rapid dialogue.
Yet since elections are governed by a patchwork of local laws, improvements to voting problems will most likely rise or fall on action in state legislatures or county governments rather than in Congress or recommendations by a presidential commission.
In the end, Congressional action might be the best thing for the industry, since a patchwork of local laws would only lead to even more headaches for companies over privacy.
