The phrase "and not the fault of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify that a particular situation or outcome is not due to someone's actions or mistakes.
Example: "The delay in the project was due to unforeseen circumstances and not the fault of the team."
Alternatives: "and not due to" or "and not attributable to".
The violations were the VA's responsibility and not the fault of McKesson, Gould said.
We must remember these are simple facts of geography and not the fault of the American theater.
Mr. Li said the solar industry's problems were the result of overcapacity in China, and not the fault of trade restrictions.
What I saw Saturday night was dangerously close to a minstrel show and not the fault of these earnest young actors".
BP said Cameron agreed that the well failure and the explosion of the drilling rig was the result of several complex and interlinked issues and not the fault of one single company.
Mr. Li, who is also the president of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, also said that the solar industry's problems were the direct result of overcapacity in China and not the fault of overseas trade restrictions.
"The independent panel concludes that the Haiti cholera outbreak was caused by the confluence of circumstances. . . and was not the fault of, or deliberate action of, a group or individual," according to the 32-page panel report, which was released late Wednesday.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed: even if mighty politico-commercial influences pushed governments into doing what they did, that is another matter – a way of manipulating markets rather than participating properly in them – and was not the fault of the stock exchange.
Cuts to public services, austerity, the strain on the NHS and the rising insecurity of employment and housing are not the fault of the EU, but are choices made by this government for its own agenda.
And it's not the fault of the Versaces.
And that is not the fault of Aboriginal people.
