In a JavaEE stateless session bean, why is the SessionContext responsible for rolling transactions back and not the EntityManager?

To me (someone who is new to JavaEE development), I would think that a container managed EntityManager would be responsible for rolling back failed transactions and not a SessionContext instance. Suppose the following scenario...

@Stateless
public class MySessionBean implements MySessionBeanRemoteInterface {
    @PersistenceContext(unitName="MYPu")
    private EntityManager em;

    @Resource
    private SessionContext sctx;

    @Override
    public StackOverFlowUser createSOUser(String userName, int rep) {
         try {
             StackOverFlowUser su = new StackOverFlowUser();
             su.setUserName(stackOverflowName);
             su.setRep(rep);
             su.setIsBalusC(userName.equals("BalusC");
             su.setIsTheJonSkeet(userName.equals("jon skeet"));
             return em.merge(su);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             //sctx.setRollbackOnly();
             return null;
         }
    }

}

Why wouldn't the EntityManager be responsible for this? Why would SessionContext be used?