Found the answer for my implementation:
In protected function displayLicenseemaintenance (where I'm loading the form), I did this. In my component, the table "license" will always have an id equal to the current user_id, so I adjusted the state as follows:
protected function displayLicenseemaintenance
...
$this->model = $model = $this->getModel();
$this->state = $state = $this->get('State');
$this->state->{'licensee.id'} = $user->id;It doesn't strike me as the "right" way of doing it, but it works
