diff --git a/src/spdx_tools/spdx/clitools/pyspdxtools.py b/src/spdx_tools/spdx/clitools/pyspdxtools.py
index 8603b8401..6a46b0d84 100644
--- a/src/spdx_tools/spdx/clitools/pyspdxtools.py
+++ b/src/spdx_tools/spdx/clitools/pyspdxtools.py
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ def main(infile: str, outfile: str, version: str, novalidation: bool, graph: boo
         logging.error(log_string)
         sys.exit(1)
 
+    except FileNotFoundError as err:
+        logging.error(f"{err.strerror}: {err.filename}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()
diff --git a/tests/spdx/test_cli.py b/tests/spdx/test_cli.py
index 6fcbe3733..0019cf3a3 100644
--- a/tests/spdx/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/spdx/test_cli.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ def test_cli_with_system_exit_code_0(options):
                 "data/invalid/spdx-trivy-vmware_log-intelligence-fluentd-sha256_086af034f561f343f633be9d9f9e95f65ae6c61b8ddb2c6755ef5bb25b40f53a.json",  # noqa: E501
             ),
         ),
+        ("-i", "non_existent_file.spdx"),
     ],
 )
 def test_cli_with_system_exit_code_1(options):